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Natural History of the British Lepidoptera. 



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



Vol. IX. 



Price £ t netm 



Vol. IX of this Encyclopaedic work has just been completed. It contains full and 

 detailed accounts of the " Hairstreaks " and "Blue" butterflies, dealing in the most 

 comprehensive manner with every phase of their life-history, variation, and distribution. 

 The volume is divided into two sections, the General Chapters dealing with a variety of 

 the phenomena attendant on the natural activities of butterfly larvte ; the second, the 

 systematic description, biology and distribution of the species dealt with, and the 

 discussion of the literature and charactei-s of the families, subfamilies and genera to 

 which the species belong, forming, as it were,- a basis for the detailed consideration of 

 the world-fauna. 



There are now published — Vols. I-V and VIIIIX, the seven volumes forming a 

 complete monographic revision of the species dealt with. 



To new subscribers to the whole work the complete set of 7 volumes will be forwarded 

 direct for £6. (If ordered thi-ough the booksellers, the price is £1 net each volume. 

 Only those who send their names to Mr. J. Herbert Tutt as continuous subscribers can 

 be supplied at this price and application must be to him direct.) 



In spite of the apparent dearness of this work, it is in reality the cheapest ever 

 published. Each volume averages more than 500 pages of solid Long Primer and Brevier, 

 of demy 8vo. size ; all the contents consisting of summarised detail, and without any 

 superfluous padding. It is a book for students, who really want all the available informa- 

 tion on the subject dealt with. It is the standard work in use among all the best scientific 

 le2)ido2)terists on the continent as well as in the British Islands, and is possibly more often 

 referred to by workers on the Palaearctic fauna than any other book in existence. It 

 covers all the Continental work ever done on the groups treated, and not only gives the 

 facts, but informs the student how to get at everything published on the subject he is 

 reading. 



The illustrations of the later volumes are quite unequalled. There are, in the volume 

 now being published, fidl-page life-histories of each species, and detailed structural plates 

 of egg, larvae and larval hairs, spiracles, etc., pupre and pupal hairs, spiracles, etc., and 

 other items illustrating quite new discoveries in the structure of the early stages, etc. 



The series of volumes forms indeed a standard work of reference, and any lepidop- 

 terist who possesses the volumes wants rarely to make reference to outside librai'ies for 

 any detail, however unusual, on the subjects treated. 



The general chapters, too, are summaries of everything known and published on the 

 various subjects. The preliminary chapters, also, introducing each superfamily, cover 

 the world-wide literature, and questions of classification and systematic entomology are 

 discussed from the broad standpoint of the fauna of the world, and not from any restricted 

 or limited point of view. The work, therefore, is one that appeals to all lepidopterista. 



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