MODERN WORKS ON BRITISH ENTOMOLOGY. 



Our entomological magazines are largely filled with repetitious of already 

 well-known facts made by lepidopterists who still appear to consider that books 

 published almost, or quite, half a century ago, contain all the up-to-date infor- 

 mation obtainable on the subjects they discuss. For advanced work of the 

 most recent kind, the more scientific and educated lepidopterist should use the 

 following work as his text-books. 



The Natural History of the British 

 Lepidoptera, 



By J. W. TUTT, F.E.S., 



Vols. I, II, III. 



Demy 8vo., strongly bound in cloth. Vol. I consisting of .560 pp., Vo]. II, of .584 pp., 



Vol. Ill, of 558 pp. 



Price £1 each Volume (net), Vols. I-IY, £3 7s. 6d. 



This work is the most important that has ever been offered to working and 

 scientific lepidopterists. It contains series of exhaustive monographs which no 

 entomologist should be without, and if he be dealing with the same super- 

 families, he will find in these volumes a mass of detailed information such as 

 never has been got together before on all the branches relating to the species 

 treated. At the same time, the discussion of general biological problems, and 

 the great amount of detail relating to such problems, give the books a value for 

 a class of workers quite apart from the British and Continental lepidopterists for 

 whom they w;ere primarily intended. 



Vol. IV (shortly to be published). 



Almost ready for publication. The price to Subscribers is 15s. 

 (22s. 6d. after publication). 



This volume will contain, besides its own detailed index, a comprehensive 

 General Index of Vols. I, II, III and IV, which is being prepared by Mr. G. 

 Wheeler, M.A., who has kindly volunteered to do the work. The present publishers 

 state that, having agreed to give booksellers more liberal terms than hitherto on 

 net books, the price per volume will have to be raised (22s. 6d. per volume has 

 been suggested). New subscribers are, therefore, urged to subscribe direct to 

 Mr. H. E. Page, " Bertrose," Gellatly Road, Hatcham, S.E., before publication. 

 Until the date of publication. Subscriptions for Vols. I, II, III and IV will be 

 accepted (if sent direct) at ^£3 7s. 6d., i.e., a discount of £\ 2s. 6d. on the lowest 

 price at which the volumes will be obtainable after the publication of Vol. IV. 



" The three volumes which lie before us of this important work, we may safely say 

 put all others of the kind in the shade. The work extends to spheres which are also of 

 exceedingly great importance to the continental lepidopterist and which lend to the 

 volumes an especial value. The work deserves our full attention and recognition and the 

 opportunity for its study is not to be missed by collectors of European lepidoptera to whom 

 it is not less valuable than to the Briton, indeed, one may say, it is almost indispensable. 

 The price — distributed according to the time of appearance of the single volumes — is one 

 that can well be borne, and continental lepidopterists, but more especially, institutions 

 and societies, should make it their business, by procuring the books, to support and further 

 the undertaking, and we wish the author success in bringing the gigantic work in due 

 course to its close." — H. Stichel, Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. December, 1902. 



