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BUTTERFLIES OF JAPAN. 



PROSPECTUS. 



Mr. DlSTANT'S excellent Rhopalocera Malayana has suggested to me to attempt a similar 

 illustrated book on the Butterflies of Japan, which I purpose callinp - The Rhopalocera Nilionica'. Although 

 I can not hope to produce as complete a work as Mr. DlSTANT'S, I trust my endeavours will meet with the 

 approval ana support of the Public 



The Rhopalocera Nilionica will be published in Three Parts, containing 3, 3, and 4 plates, re- 

 spectively, and the price will be Twelve Dollars for the entire Work. It will be of a size uniform with the 

 Rhopalocera Malayana, and will contain 167 coloured figures, embracing all the authentic Japanese species 

 known to me. 



I have endeavoured to bring out, prominently, the great amount of variation and also the strange 

 temperature forms, of the Japanese butterflies. All the illustrations have been drawn and lithographed by 

 Native artists, and although it is the first work of the kind executed in Japan, I believe it will be found, 

 in this resptxt, to compare most favourably with Foreign publications. 



The letterpress will be in both languages, English and Japanese, and, together with the plates, 

 will be printed on Japanese l< untearable " paper. 



H. PRYER, C.M.Z.S. 



No. 127, Bluff, 



YOKOHAMA, 19th November, 1886. 



