THE THIRD VOLUME 



OF 



A NATURAL HISTORY 



OF THE 



BRITISH BUTTERFIES, 



THEIR WORLD-WIDE VARIATION AND GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 



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



The third volume of the above standard work, fully and profusely illustrated, will 

 be published in 20 parts, at Is. per part. These parts will contain a monographic 

 revision of the British "blue " butterflies, confessedly the most difficult group of butterflies 

 to deal with biologically, represented in the British Isles. For this work life-histories of 

 each British species have been worked out at length, and photographs of the different 

 stages of almost every species inade from life. 



Since the completion of the last volume, it has been necessary to revise the species 

 in the group to which Everes nrgiades belongs; this has now been done, if not altogether 

 so completely as one could wish, sufficiently for our purpose, and Part I is now in the 

 printer's hands, and we trust will be forwarded to subscribers shortly (in the course of a 

 few days at most). The literature relating to some of the species is enormous, and we 

 are fortunate in having persuaded the Rev. G. Wheeler, M.A., author of the well-known 

 "Butterflies of Switzerland," to aid us in the synonymic and more literary parts of our 

 work. All our former collaborators, in addition, are helping us with the present volume. 



The expense of illustrating this volume in detail will be so heavy, that we wish to 

 secure as large a subscription list as possible. We are sure that those who know the 

 work consider the illustrations a great improvement, but a larger subscription list is 

 necessary if we are to expand as largely as is possible in this direction. 



Subscribers for the 20 parts (in the last volume these extended to 25 parts at the 

 same subscription price) is fixed at 17s. 6d., lohich must be paid direct to J. Herbeit Tutt. 

 Copies bought through the booksellers must be paid for at their face value per number. 

 To ensure delivery as soo7i as puhlishi'd, subscriptions should he sent direct, and the 

 following (or a similar) covering note forwarded therewith: — 



Please enter my name as a subscriber for the new series of 20 parts of A 

 Natural History of the British Butterflies, for which I enclose postal order for 17s. 6d. 

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J. HERBERT TUTT, 119, Westcombe Hill, Blackeath, S.E. 



Monograph of the British Pterophorina. 



^-^^-- • ::.-- By J. W. TUTT, F.E.S. 



• • ■• '(Deniy 8vo., 161 pp., bound in Cloth.) 



Price 5/- net. 



This book contains an inti-oductory chapter on " Collecting," " Killing " and 

 " Setting " the Pterophorina, a table giving details of each species — Times of appearance 

 of larva, of pupa, and of imago, food-plants, mode of pupation, and a complete account (so 

 far as is known) of every British species, under the headings of " Synonymy," " Imago," 

 " Variation," " Ovum," " Larva," "Food-plants," " Pupa," " Habitat," and " Distribu- 

 tion." It is much the most coniplete and trustworthy account of this interesting group of 

 Lepidoptera that has ever been" published. 



