Keep your knowledge of British Butterflies up to date. 



''Acquaintance with the author's other volumes on British Lepidoptera had prepared us for 

 masterly and exhaustive treatment of the Butterflies, and we certainly ai^ not aisappomted 

 The book will be found exceedingly useful to everyone interested in British butterflies, but to the 

 student m the higher branches of entomology it will be indispensable/'-r/jc Entomologist, December" 



Pa.pts I, II, III, lY, Y, YI & YII 



OF 



A NATURAL HISTORY 



OF THE 



BRITISH BUTTERFLIES 



Their World-wide Variation and Geographical Distribution. 

 (A Text-book for Students and Collectors.) 



By J. W. TUTT, F.E.S., 



Were published on November 1st, loth, December 15th, January 15th, February 1st 

 March 15th and April 15th. Price Is. net (post free Is. Id.) each part. 



The book is divisible into two parts— (1) Chapters on the general subject 

 (2) Systematic and Biological considerations of each family, subfamily, tribe' 

 genus and species. ' ' 



Parts I, II and III contain, in the first section, chapters entitled " General 

 observations on Butterflies," " Egglaying of Butterflies," " Eggs of Butterflies " 

 " Photographing Butterflies' Eggs," "Obtaining Eggs of Butterflies," "Butterfl'y 

 Larvas and their Moultings," and " External Structures of the Butterfly Larva." 



The second section contains a detailed consideration of the superfamiiy 

 Urbicolides (Hesperiides) or .skippers, the family Urbicolid^e, the subfamily 

 Thymblicin^, the tribe Thymelicim, the genus Adop^a, the species Adop^a 

 LiNEOLA, and A. flava (thaumas), the genus Thymelicus, the species Thymelicus 

 acteon. the tribe Urbicolidi, the genus Augiades, the species A ugiades sylvanus, 

 the genus Urbicola, the species Urbicola comma, the subfamily CYCLOPiDiNisi 

 the tribe Cyclopididi, the genus Cyclopides, the species Cyclopides pal^mon ' 

 the family Hesperiidji:, the subfamily Hesperiidi, the genus Hesperia, and the 

 species Hesperia malv^. 



The species are described under the headings of "Synonymy," "Original 

 Description,' '"Imago," "Sexual Dimorphism," " Gynandromorphism," "Com- 

 parison of allied species," "Variation," "Egglaying," "Ovum," "Comparison of 

 eggs of allied species," "Habits of Larva," "Ontogeny of Larva," "Larva," 

 "Variation of Larva," " Foodplants," " Puparium, ' "Pupa," "Time of Appear- 

 ance" (v^rith lists of actual dates in given places), "Habitat," "Habits" 

 " British Localities " and " Distribution." Plates illustrating the eggs of the 

 " Skippers," " Coppers," and "Blues," " Larval Hairs of Skippers," " Apparatus 

 for Photographing Eggs," etc., are published with these parts. 



Every entomologist should send for Parts I, II, III, IV, V. VI and VII (Is. Id. 

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