THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE 



^BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA 



By J. yV. TUTT. 



Vols. I and II. 



Demy 8vo., strongly bound in Cloth. 



Vol. I consisting of 560 pp. Vol. II of 584 pp. 



Price £i each Volume (net). 



PRESS OPINIONS. 



"Theseooncl volume of Mr. Tutt's great work fulfils the promise of the first, and supplies some 

 •chapters which were wanting to complete matters of a general character. That most striking of all the 

 attributes of insects, metamorphosis, is in this second volume, treated at length, the observations and 

 theories of the well known leading authorities on the subject being stated and discussed. . . . There 

 is a separate chapter on phenomena incidental to metamorphosis, such as the passing, sometimes, of 

 several years in the pupal stage and the impossibility in such cases of forcing. The external morphology 

 of the pupa has a chapter to itself, the author correcting some common errors as to the structure and 

 significance of the different parts, and setting forth the view that the pupa is the modified representative 

 of the ancestral form of insect, from which the larva on the one side, and the imago on the other, have 

 been developed. Professor Poulton's views are discussed very fully, and in some cases combated. Many 

 interesting questions are treated in a separate chapter, on the internal structure of the pupa, including 

 the formation of the wings and scales upon them. The chapter on the phylogeny of the lepidopterous 

 pupa is by Dr. Chapman, and it is unnecessary to say that it is characterised by great fulness of original 

 observation and carefully thought-out conclusions. The introductory ohax)ters occupy 100 pages, the 

 .rest of the volume is taken up with descriptions of species and all that belongs to tliem in the same 

 copious style as in the first volume. The 300 pages occupied with the Psychides, present all that is 

 known of the British species, with very full references to many others, and a complete catalogue of the 

 species of thePalsearctic region. Vast labour has been devoted by the author and his coadjutors to this 

 part of the work, a study of which is indispensable to all who desire to be fully informed in this obscure 

 and difficult subject. . . . Nothing but a lengthened study, such as there has been no time to give 

 it, could do justice to the work, and when we think of the amount of attention necessary to assimilate 

 its contents, we are filled with admiration of the labour that must have been devoted to its production." 

 Mr. F. Merrifield, F.E.S., The Entomologist, August, 1900. 



" It is pleasant to write a few words in appreciation of the second volume of Mr. J. W. Tutt's 

 British Lepidojjtera. Of the great utility of this work there can be no doubt whatever, and the punctual 

 appearance of Vol. II will be a matter of general congratulation amongst i*aturalists. Mr. Tutt's work 

 aims at being in the first place a complete collection of all that is as yet known of the natural history 

 of the species dealt with. These books are no mere compilation, but in tlie fullest sense original 

 treatises. No pains have been sjiared to get together everything that relates to the structure, distribu- 

 tion, variation, life-history and habits of each form in its several stages. Many of the facts thus given 

 are new, a large part being the results of the author's own direct observation. Moreover, much of the 

 information here published has bean communicated privately to Mr. Tutt by his numerous correspon- 

 dents, and the mass of facts given at first hand is thus greatly increased. This is especially the case in 

 regard to the life-histories, which in very many instances have been worked through in minute detail 

 by Mr. Tutt and his coadjutors expressly for this book. Owing to the wide appeal which the author 

 has made to living entomologists for such personal records, and to his laborious researches into the 

 literature already printed, the books probably represent the sum of existing knowledge on the subjects 

 contained. It is a special charm of Mr. Tutt's treatise that the reader has a comfortable sense that his 

 author is giving him no scamped work. Everything capable of verification has been verified, and 

 nothing is repeated in slovenly fashion unchecked. For such a work not only professed entomologists, 

 but all naturalists who from time to time require precise information as co lepidoptera, will be grateful 

 to Mr. Tutt, and his books will be required in every working library of natural history. Nothing of the 

 kind has hitherto been attempted, and by reference to them much searching and weary correspon- 

 dence will be avoided. The present volume deals with the Psychides and part of the Lachneides. 

 Whether the views adopted by Mr. Tutt on questions of classification and the like are sound or not can, 

 of course, only be judged by specialists, but it will be evident to any student of zoology that he has 

 attacked these problems m a most fruitful way, and that in each of the numerous discussions of special 

 questions he has provided a marshalling of the facts which will help succeeding students. Several 

 sections of this kind are introduced relating to general questions of the morphology of lepidoptera, 

 especially the nature of metamorphosis and the structure of pupte. In addition to these there is an 

 important chapter written by Dr. T. A. Chapman on the phylogeny of the lepidopterous pupa, a 

 , subject on which he is the recognised authority." — Vv''. Bateson, M.A., F.R.S., September, 1900. 



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