VI PREFACE. 



Still, however, there are others, and possibly a larger number, 

 who will desire to capture a few specimens of each kind of 

 butterfly for closer examination and study. It is believed that 

 this little volume will be found useful to both sections of 

 naturalists alike. 



The author in preparing the book has been largely guided by 

 a recollection of the kind of information he sought when he 

 himself was a beginner, now some forty odd years ago. 



In conclusion, he desires to tender his most sincere thanks to 

 the undermentioned gentlemen, who so kindly furnished him 

 with eggs, caterpillars, and chrysalids ; or favoured him with 

 the loan of some of their choicest varieties of butterflies for 

 figuring ; without their valued assistance many of the illustra- 

 tions could not have been prepared : — Rev. Gilbert Raynor, 

 Major Robertson, Messrs. F. Noad Clark, T. Dewhurst, C. H. 

 Forsythe, F. W. Frohawk, A. H. Hamm, A. Harrison, H. Main, 

 A. M. Montgomery, E. D. Morgan, G. B. Oliver, J. Ovenden, 

 G. Randell, A. L. Ray ward, E. J. Salisbury, A. H. Shepherd, 

 F. A. Small, L. D. Symington, A. E. Tonge, B. Weddell, 

 F. G. Whittle, and H. Wood. 



Varieties — Messrs. R. Adkin, J. A. Clark, F. W. Frohawk, 

 and E. Sabine. 



With kind permission of the Ray Society, figures of the 

 following larvae and pupae have been reproduced from Buckler's 

 " Larvae of British Butterflies " : — P. daft Mice, C. eausa, M. 

 athalia, P. c-album, S. scmcle, A- hyperanthus, 0. tyfthon, 

 C. fiamfthihis, C. rt/bi, C. argiolus, A. thaumas, A. actccou. 

 Larva only — L. sinaftis, A. selene, A. aurinia, and T. pruni. 



Figures of A. cratcegi, A. liueola, and C. palcemon have been 

 made from preserved skins. 



For coloured plates, I, 30, 42, 48, 58, 66, 98, 100, 112, 116, 118, 

 and the accurately drawn black-and-white figures, including 

 enlargements, the author is greatly indebted to Mr. Horace 

 Knight. 



