BUTTERFLY HUNTING IN MANY LANDS 



C. B. LONGSTAFF 

 LONGMANS & CO. 



This book, as the title indicates, is the work of a field naturalist. The 

 material, which fills about seven hundred pages, covers the collecting trips 

 made by the author in practically all parts of the world. There are five 

 colored plates showing some of the most interesting and beautiful insects 

 from widely separated regions. While there are numerous accounts of insects 

 seen -and captured, the collection of Lepidoptera is chiefly described. Mention 

 is made of the chief species captured on the various trips and accounts are 

 given of the conditions under which they are found. In addition to this 

 there are most interesting sketches of travel from place to place, with descrip- 

 tions of lands and peoples. 



Although there is much to interest the general reader besides entomological 

 material, no one is at any time far from the description of the occurrence 

 or the capture of insect forms. The book is indeed as the author states in 

 the preface: "An attempt to put into readable form the technical diaries of a 

 wandering entomologist. ' ' 



Naturally to the field entomologist this book chiefly appeals, but to all 

 interested in collecting or in biological work out of doors, it is a very inter- 

 esting volume. To the entomologist as to the general reader the pleasing 

 accounts of trips taken and specimens obtained cannot fail to awaken interest. 

 The book is also more than an account of field trips and of travel, for it is in 

 a sense an autobiography giving so much of the causes which led to the author's 

 interest in entomology. 



There are first notes of early field trips in England and then follow 

 the accounts of longer expeditions as follows: India and Ceylon 1903-4, 

 Algeria in 1905, South Africa in 1905, West Indies and South America 1906-7, 

 Ceylon 1908, Egypt and Sudan 1909, and finally New Zealand and Australia 

 in 1910. 



At the end of the book is a chapter on bionomics, in which a number of 

 interesting observations are brought together, especially on mutilation by 

 foes, the results from experiments on palatibility, mimicry, list and shadow, 

 inverted attitude and so on. Not much of this is really new, but it is all 

 ■interesting. In the appendix are four plates with translations of papers by 

 Muller on hair tufts, scent glands, scent organs, etc., of Lepidoptera. 



This book is in its way an important contribution to our literature of 

 Hold naturalists, and many parts of it, as the descriptions of early collecting 

 in England, will rank well with (mr best accounts of such work. 



William A. Hilton. 



