IN THE COURSE OF PUBLICATION, 



{In Monthly Numbers, price As. 6d. each.) 



BRITISH ENTOMOLOGY, 



By JOHN CURTIS, F.L.S., 



Honorary Member of the Ashmolean Society of Oxford, of the Imperial and Royal 

 Academy of Florence, of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, &c. 



To be completed in Sixteen Volumes, royal octavo. 



This Work contains Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects 

 found in Great Britain and Ireland, and comprises Coloured Figures from Na- 

 ture of the most rare and beautiful Species, and in many instances of the Plants 

 upon which they are found. 



The Thirteen Volumes already before the public embrace 625 Genera of the 

 different Orders, the characters of which have all been taken from specimens 

 dissected by the Author, and include above 4600 species, a great portion of 

 them being arranged in the synoptic lists, with references to the writers who 

 first described and figured them, and to a considerable extent their habits and 

 times of appearance have been added. The Plates exhibit 733 Coloured Fi- 

 gures of Insects drawn from Nature by the Author, (excepting a few of the 

 Caterpillars,) as well as representations of 584 Plants, many of them rare and 

 local species : this it is hoped will render the Work acceptable to those who 

 wish to recognise our native Plants, and some value, perhaps, may be attached 

 to the Figures by Botanists, when it is known that they have all been drawn 

 from wild specimens, either gathered by the Author in his excursions, or trans- 

 mitted to him by his friends. 



The Volumes, in extra boards, may be purchased separately, price 21. 14s. 

 each, excepting Vol. I., which is 21. 17s. 6d. 



DRA^VINGS. 



In consequence of the heavy expenses attending the publication of the above 

 Work, the Author is desirous of disposing of the original drawings, amounting 

 to nearly 700. The last fourteen years he has devoted to the execution of them ; 

 the Insects have been drawn from British specimens; in the dissections he 

 has delineated nothing but what he has himself observed ; and the Plants have 

 been executed from living specimens. 



PROOF IMPRESSIONS. 



Of these there were only four sets, one of which is not subscribed for. 



Gentlemen who may wish to possess the Drawings or Proofs may learn the 

 price, &c., by applying to Mr. Curtis. , ^V /' y ^ <^ / 



57 Uppor Charlotte Stroot, Fitaroy Squaro^ London . /^-^-^^^"'^^ •• /' . *'— ^A >'— -^-^ 

 June 1837. 



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