London, March \st^ 1873. 
LIST OF WORKS 
PUBLISHED BY 
L. REEVE & CO. 
NEW SERIES OF NATURAL HISTORY 
FOR BEGINNERS. 
A good introductory series of books on Natural History for 
the use of students and amateurs is still a desideratum. Those at 
present in use have been too much compiled from antiquated sources ; 
whilst the figures, copied in many instances from sources equally anti- 
quated, are far from accurate, the colouring of them having become 
degenerated through the adoption, for the sake of cheapness, of 
mechanical processes. 
The present series will be entirely the result of original research 
carried to its most advanced point ; and the figures, which will be 
chiefly engraved on steel, by the artist most highly renowned in each 
department for his technical knowledge of the subjects, will in all 
cases be drawn from actual specimens, and coloured separately by 
hand. 
Each work will treat of a department of Natural History suf- 
ficiently limited in extent to admit of a satisfactory degree of 
completeness. 
The following are now ready : — 
British Insects ; a Familiar Description of the 
Form, Structure, Habits, and Transformations of Insects. By 
E. F. Staveley. Crown 8vo, 16 Coloured Steel Plates, en- 
graved from Natural Specimens expressly for the work by E. W. 
Robinson, and numerous Wood-Engravings by E. C. Rye, 14s. 
British Butterflies and Moths; an Introduction 
to the Study of our Native Lepidoptera. By H. T. Stainton. 
Crown 8vo, 16 Coloured Steel Plates, containing Figures of 100 
Species, engraved from Natural Specimens expressly for the 
work by E. W. Robinson, and Wood-Engravings, 10s. Qd, 
