SHORTLY -WILL BE PUBLISHED, 



In a handsome quarto volume, containing ?>o Plates, price '^t>s. coloured; or, with a 

 double set of Plates, coloured and plain, extra cloth, £1. 12s. 6d., 



THE GENERA 



OF 



BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA, 



SELECTED FEOM 



The Proprietor of 'The Genera of British Insects,' by JOHN CURTIS, F.L.S., 

 comprised in Sixteen Volumes, price £21 (oriijinally £43), having been frequently so- 

 licited to publish portions of the Work in separate monographs, it has been determined 

 to issue the Lepidoptera and Coleoptera in separate volumes. The exquisite 

 figures of British Moths and Butterflies, nearly two hundred in number, en- 

 graved in this renowned Work, have been hitherto beyond the reach of ordinary col- 

 lectors. They constitute a fourth of the whole Work, and even at the reduced price 

 cannot be issued separately, in the original form, under six guineas, on account of the 

 great expense of colouring the plant and larva. 



The volume above announced will contain a figure, with description, of every species 

 of Lepidoptera contained in 193 plates of Curtis's British Entomology,' transferred 

 from the original copper, and coloured in the very best manner by hand. 



The Coleoptera, or Beetles, comprised in 256 of Curtis's plates, will also be 

 published in the same style, at the same reduced rate. 



Of each volume copies will be prepared with an additional set of plates, uncoloured, 

 selected with the \iew of showing the minute details of the engraving. 



Entomologists, both of this country and of the Continent, are universally of opinion 

 that the Insects of Great Britain and Ireland have ?ierer been figured in a manner 

 at all equal in excellence to the figures of Mr. Curtis. Professor Latreille, the eminent 

 entomologist of Paris, in directing the attention of his students to the best works for 

 the aid of figures, pronounced this to have " attained the idtimntitm of perfection ;" 

 and Cuvier spoke of the character of the Insects figured in this Work as " being re- 

 presented with the greatest fidelity." 



" Vous savez qu'a I'egard d'un grand nombre d'csp&ces, leur determination reclame 

 le secours de figures. 11 est done de mon devoir de vous indiquer les livres ou vous 

 trouverez les meilleures. Celui de M. Curtis, sur les genres d'insectes indigenes de 

 I'Angleterre, me parait avoir atteint Vultimatum da la perfection." — Latreille, 

 Cours d^Entomologie. 



*' M. John Curtis, naturaliste Anglais, a commence la publication d'un Genera icono- 

 graphique des genres d'insectes et de planter propres a la Grande Bretagne. Leurs 

 caract^res sont representes avec la plus grande fidelite." — Cuvier, Le Regne Animal, 



LovELL Reeve, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. 



