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in threepenny monthly parts from 1856 to 1859, and has held its 

 ground as the only complete and compact work on the subject 

 until tlie recent publication of Mr. Meyrick's " Handbook " 

 {zu'df aiilca^ p. xxxix.). Stainton, however, gave only occasional 

 woodcuts, and his work was supplemented, as Stephens's volumes 

 had been by Wood's, by Newman's " Natural History of British 

 Butterflies," and " Natural History of British Moths"— works in 

 which all the species, as far as the Geoinetn^ inclusive, are 

 represented by woodcuts of the natural size. The woodcuts 

 are, as a rule, very good, and these books have been rej^rinted 

 several times. I have utilized many of these cuts in the course 

 of the present work. 



The number of more or less recent popular books on 

 British Lepidoptera (by Morris, Lucas, Gordon, Tutt, and 

 others) is innumerable, but the last general work which I 

 propose to notice is Mr. C. G. Barrett's, " Lepidoptera of the 

 British Islands," now in course of publication. It is the fulles 

 and best account of British Lepidoptera^ from the point of view 

 of a British Entomologist, and includes figures and descriptions 

 of all the British species, with exhaustive notices of habits, trans- 

 formations, &c. 



Several larvse are figured in Mr. Barrett's work, but we have 

 now to mention two other books devoted entirely to the trans- 

 formations of British Lepidoptera. These are Owen Wilson's 

 "Larvae of British Lepidoptera'' {\^Zo), which includes the 

 Macro-Lepidoptera, and Buckler's posthumous work on the 

 same subject, of which the sixth volume, extending to the end 

 of the A'octuce, has just been issued by the Ray Society. 



Most of the popular works on British Lepidoptera are 

 confined to the Macro- Lepidoptera, or to the Butterflies ; and 

 those of sufficient importance have been already mentioned ; 

 but among the more special works I may mention the 

 following : — 



