Practical Hints for the Field Lepidopterist. 



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



TWO PARTS (interleaved for Collector's own notes), 

 Containing about 3000 Practical Hints of the form so well known. 



Together with General and Specific Index by H. J. Turner, F.E.S. Together with 

 Chapters on the Preservation, Mounting, and Photographing of Eggs, by F. Noad 

 Clark and A. E. Tonge. 

 And also Chapters on Collections, Collecting, Collectors, The Egg and Eggstage, the 

 Larva and Larval Stage, the Pupa and Pupal Stage (with model descriptions and 

 hints for useful records), the whole illustrated by 



SEVEN CAREFULLY EXECUTED PLATES. 



Making this the most important book on the subject ever offered to the field lepidopterist. 



PRICE— SIX. SHILLINGS EACH PART (not interleaved). 



(An Encyclopasdia of Field Lepidoi3terology.) 



A Natural History of the British Butterflies 



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



Published in Parts, price Is. each (or ^1 for the complete series of 22 or 23 



Parts). 



The general subject so far has been treated in the following Chapters — " The Jijsti- 

 vation and Hybernation of Butterfly Larvte ; " "The Gregarious Habit in Butterfly 

 Larvfe ; " " Family Habits in Butterfly Larvw — (1) The Vanessids, (2) The Fritillaries, 

 (3) The Limenitids, (4) The Apaturids, (5) The Satyrids, (6) The Pierids, (7) The 

 Coliads, etc., (8) The Hairstreaks, (9) The Lycjenids, etc." 



The systematic part deals with the following — "The Ruralides or hairstreaks," 

 "The Genus Callophrys," " Callophrys rubi : Synonymy — Original description — 

 Sexual dimorphism — Variation (vars. minor, major, siiffusa, fervida, intermedia, 

 caerulescens, punctata, inferopunctata, incompleta, bipunctata, caecus, pallida, borealis, 

 sihirica, nordlandica, suaveola, etc.) — Nature of the green colouring of the underside of 

 Callophrys rtM — Pathological examples — Egglaying — Ovum — Habits of larva — Larva- 

 Variation of larva — Foodplants — Pupation — Pupa — Pupal dehiscence — Stridulation of 

 the pupa — Time of appearance — Habits — Habitat — British localities — Distribution 

 (throughout the world)." "Tribe Strymonidi or Theclidi," " The genus Edwardsia," 

 " Edwardsia (Thecla) w-album : Synonymy — Original description — Imago — Sexual 

 dimorphism — Variation (vars. minor, major, obsoleta, albovirgata, i^emialhovirgata, 

 sutschatii, butlerowi, fentoni, etc.) — Comparison with Felderia eximia — Pathological 

 examples — Egglaying — Ovum — ^ Habits of larva — Larva — Variation in larva — Larval 

 moults — Colour change of larva during resting-period preceding pupation — Foodplants — 

 Parasites — Silk-spinning in preparation for pupation — Pupation —Colour changes during 

 maturation of pupa — Pupa — Time of appearance — Habits — Habitat — British localities — 

 Distribution (world-wide)." "Genus Strymon," " Strymon (Thecla) pruni : Synonymy 

 — Original description — Imago — Sexual dimorphism — Variation (vars. profiressa, excessa, 

 ptorsas, fulvior, minor, major, pallida, paupera, albofasciata, semialhqfasciata, obsoleta, 

 etc.) — Teratological examples — Egglaying — Ovum — Habits of larva — Larva — Variation of 

 larva — Quiescent stage of larva preceding pupation — Foodplants — Parasites — Pupation — 

 Process of pupation and development of pupal form — Maturation of pupa — Pupa — 

 Dehiscence of pupa — Time of appearance — Habits — Habitats — British localities — Dis- 

 tribution (world-wide)." 



The "Tribe EuRALiDi," " Genus Bithys," " Bithys quercus," " Genus Rukalis," 

 " RuRAUs BETVi,M," "The subfamily Lyc«nin;e," " The genus Lampides," " Lampides 

 BCETicus," "The tribe Celastrinidi and the genus Celastrina," "Celastrina argiolos," 

 etc., are all treated in the same detailed fashion. 



Some of the plates are as follows — Plate I : British Hairstreaks (22 figures of 

 imagines) ; Plate II : Eggs of British Hairstreaks (15 figures) ; Plate III : (1) Pupal Skin 

 and Pupal Hairs of Edwardsia w-albian, (2) Pupal Skin and Pupal Hairs of Bithys quercvs; 

 Plate IV: Lifehistory of Callophrys rubi — egg (4 figures), larva (7 figures), pupa (2 figures), 

 imago (resting position alive) ; Plate V : Pupal skin, Pupal hairs, and spiracle of 

 Callophrys rubi ; and so on up to Plate XXV. 



Dear Sir,— 



Please forward me all the parts comprised in Vol. II of The Natural History of 

 British Butterflies, parts 1-17 forthwith, the other parts as published, for which I forward 

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