JUST PUBLISHED. 



A Natural History of the British 

 Lepidoptera, 



VOL. IV. 



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



With Synopsis of Contents of Vols. I and IV., and General Index of Vols. I to 

 IV, by GEORGE WHEELER, M.A. 



Price £1 net. 



Thick 8vo., uoo and xvi. pp.. Plates, etc., strongly bound in cloth, and gold- J[ 



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Complete act', Vol. I-IV, for the nc.rt four weeks will he sold for £3 7s. 6d. 



A detailed account of the British Sphingids, quite encyclopaedic in its 

 character, with general details of the whole group, their affinities and classifica- 

 tion, their habits, early stages, distribution, etc. ; full account of their 

 hybridisation and gynandromorphisni, their variation and local races. Every 

 British entomologist ought to make it his business to see this work, if he sees it, 

 he will buy it, even if he makes no other investment in entomological books. 

 Every available detail that cau be gathered, either from British records or abroad, 

 has been accuuiulated to make up a huge collection of facts about each species, of 

 which even the most advanced lepidopterist can have no conception till he has 

 seen the work. The account of. Af/ritm convolvuU occupies 68 pages, and that of 

 Manduca atro^ws, 76 pages of detailed facts, whilst the accounts of ScuiK 

 atellataraiii, EniiiorpJia elpeiiot\ Tlwretid poyfellus, Hippotion celerio, PJiri/xut) 

 livornico, Celerio (jaUii, Hi/les eapJiorbifie, Daphnis iierii, Hi/loicits pinastri and 

 Sphinx lu/itstri must be held to be unrivalled. The older British lepidopterists . 

 who regret the decay of British entomology as they knew it, will see, by refer- ■ 

 ence to this worlc, what they and their contemporaries have done, by their steady • 

 work, towards llie grand total of knowledge that we now have of these species. 

 Over a thousand different entomologists have been drawn on for material in con- 

 nection with this work. 



It is remarkable that, although entitled A Natural History of Brititsh 

 Lepidoptera, the German lepidopterists have insisted on a German translation. 

 Such a book must be more valuable to the British lepidopterist, and if every one 

 would see it, no doubt he would want it. 



The Hon. W. Rothschild and Dr. Jordan write in their standard lievision 

 of the Sphiiu/idae : " Tutt's work is the most intrinsic ever written on the 

 Paliearctic Lepidoptera. There is nothing written anywhere on European 

 Lepidoptera coming up to it in thoroughness." Mr. W. Bateson, F.B.S., writes : 

 '• The new British Lepidoptera is a tine scholarly piece of work, for which not ^ 

 only the entomological specialist, but naturalists of all orders, will be thankful to 

 Mr. Tutt for many a year, etc." 



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Now Keacly. 



Catalogue of British Coleoptera, 



BY 



T. HUDSON-BEARE, B.Sc, F.R.S.E., F.E.S., and H. St. J. K. DONIS- 



THORPE, F.E.S. 



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