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DISTANT (W. L.) Rhopalocera Malayana: a Description of the Butter 

 flies of the Malay Peninsula, roj. 4to., with 46 coloured plates containing 

 several hundred specimens (pub. at £6. 16s 6d), half morocco extra 

 £5 5s 1882-8* 



" The work is published in quarto in sumptuous style, is unexceptionable in typography ant 

 profusely illustrated. Besides 46 plates of some of the best chromo-lithographs of butrerfliei 

 which we have ever seen, there are 129 woodcuts scattered through the text, generally illustrating 

 special structural features, especially in neuratiou and leg structure, which are of the greatest 

 value. ... It remains only to say that a good deal of interesting reading will be found scattered 

 through the portly volume, and that there are points in ihe preface worthy of careful attention 

 About 500 species are described." — S. H. Scudder. 



In this work is given a monographic revision and synonymic catalogue of the Butterflies 

 of the Malay Peninsula, including the Islands of Penang and Singapore. The fauna of the 

 western side of the Peninsula is at present best known, and is here principally treated ; this area 

 extends from Quedah to Johore. 



MARSHALL (G. P. L.) and L. de NICEVILLE, The Butterflies oi 

 India, Burmah and Ceylon. A Descriptive Handbook of all the known 

 Species of Rhopalocerous Lepidoptera inhabiting that Region, with 

 Notices of Allied Species occurring in the neighbouring Countries along 

 the Border, vols. I — III (all published), impl. 8vo. with wood engravings, 

 autotype plates, and chromo-lithographs, sd., £4. 8s Calcutta, 1882-90 



SHELLEY (G. E.) Monograph of the Nectariniida?, or Family of Sun- 

 Birds, roy. 4to. 5 with 120 coloured plates, in parts {subscription price, 

 £12. 12s), £5. 5s 1876-80 



the same, roy. 4to., half morocco, gilt top, £6. 6s 1876-80 



SHUFELDT (R. W.) The Myology of the Raven (Corvus corax 

 sinuatus), 8vo., with many structural engravings, cloth (pub. at 13s), 



4s 6d Hacmillan, 1890 



A high-class work on the anatomy and muscular system of birds. 



LA YARD (E. L.) and R. B. SHARPE, The Birds of South Africa, 

 roy. 8vo., with 12 coloured plates, half morocco, £2. 16s 1875-84 



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TRINCHE3E (Salvator) MARINE LIFE in the BAY OF GENOA- 

 Aeolididae e famiglie affini del Porto di Geneva, 2 vols. 4to. with 

 115 partly coloured plates, cloth, £1. 16s Bologna, 1877-79, and Borne, 1881 



A high-class work on every variety of Marine Animals such as Octopods, Seahorses, 

 Starfishes, Foraminifera, etc. Very lew copies were privately printed; none have as yet 

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