PREFACE 
TO THE 
SECOND EDITION. 
Tue very rapid sale of an extensive First 
Edition of the “‘ Book of Butterflies, Sphinges, 
and Moths,” together with the favourable cha- 
racter which the British Press has bestowed on 
the Work, have induced the Proprietors to add 
an additional Volume, so as to render the book 
more perfect, by giving a variety of new and 
striking objects. 
The Author has given, in the Third Volume, 
the modern arrangement of the Papilionacea, 
showing the new genera which have been 
formed from the Linnean genera Papilio, 
Sphinx, and Phalena. He has besides added 
directions for collecting, breeding, preserving, 
