SHOBTLY WILL BE PUBLISHED, 
hi a handsome quarto volume , containing 35 Plates, price 35s. coloured ; or, with a 
double set of Plates, coloured and plain, extra cloth, <^’2. 12s. 6d., 
THE GENERA 
OF 
BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA, 
SELECTED FKOM 
Curtis’s 3Srtttstj Cntomologg. 
The Proprietor of ‘ The Genera of British Insects,’ by JOHN CURTIS, F.L.S., 
comprised in Sixteen Volumes, price £21 (originally £43), having been frequently so- 
licited to publish portions of the Work in separate monographs, it has been determined 
to issue the Lepidoptera and Coleoptera in separate volumes. The exquisite 
figures of British Moths and Butterflies, nearly two hundred in number, en- 
graved in this renowned Work, have been hitherto beyond the reach of ordinary col- 
lectors. They constitute a fourth of the whole Work, and even at the reduced price 
cannot be issued separately, in the original form, under six guineas , on account of the 
great expense of colouring the plant and larva. 
The volume above announced will contain a figure, with description, of every species 
of Lepidoptera contained in 193 plates of ‘ Curtis’s British Entomology,’ transferred 
from the original copper, and coloured in the very best manner by hand. 
The Coleoptera, or Beetles, comprised in 256 of Curtis’s plates, will also be 
published in the same style, at the same reduced rate. 
Of each volume copies will be prepared with an additional set of plates, uncoloured, 
selected with the view of showing the minute details of the engraving. 
Entomologists, both of this country and of the Continent, are universally of opinion 
that the Insects of Great Britain and Ireland have never been figured in a manner 
at all equal in excellence to the figures of Mr. Curtis. Professor Latreille, the eminent 
entomologist of Paris, in directing the attention of his students to the best works for 
the aid of figures, pronounced this to have “ attained the ultimatum of perfection 
and Cuvier spoke of the character of the Insects figured in this Work as “ being re- 
presented with the greatest fidelity.” 
“ Vous savez qu’a Regard d’un grand nombre d’esp&ces, leur determination reclame 
le secours de figures. II est done de mon devoir de vous indiquer les livres ou vous 
trouverez les meiUeures. Celui de M. Curtis, sur les genres d’insectes indigenes de 
EAngleterre, me parait avoir atteint Vultimatum da la perfection.” — Latreille, 
Cours d’ Entomologie. 
“ M. John Curtis, naturaliste Anglais, a commence la publication d’un Genera icono- 
graphique des genres d’insectes et de plantes propres k la Grande Bretagne. Leurs 
caract&res sont repr^sentes avec la plus grande fidelity.” — Cuvier, Le Regne Animal . 
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