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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. 



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A detailed account of the British Sphingids, quite encyclopjedic 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 gyuandromorphism, their variation and local races. Every 

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

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

 Ev-ery available detail that can be gathered, either from British records or abroad, 

 has been accumulated 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 Agriun convolvuli occupies 63 pages, and that of" 

 Mnnduea utro/jos, 76 pages of detailed facts, whilst the accounts of Sesin 

 sfcUataruiii, Euniorplux I'lpenor, TJieretra porceUii.s, Hippotion cclcrio, Pltrijxns 

 licornica, Celerio gallii, Hyles enphorhiae, Daplniin nerii, Hijloicus pinaatri and 

 Sjyhinx ligustri must be lield to be unrivalled. The older British lepidopterists 

 Avho I'egret the decay of British entomology as they knew it, will see, by refer- 

 ence to this work, what they and their contemporaries have done, bj' their steady 

 work, towards the 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 Histonj of Britinh 

 Lopndoptera, 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. 



Tlje Hon. W. Rothschild and Dr. Jordan write in their standard Revision 

 of the Sp]iin(/idaf : '• Tutt's work is the most intrinsic ever written on the 

 Palfearctic Lepidoptera. There is nothing written anywhere on European 

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

 " The new British Lepidoptera is a tine scholarly piece of work, for which not 

 onl}' the entomological specialist, but naturalists of all orders, will be thankful to 

 Wr. Tutt for many a year, etc." 



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