Abstract
THIS is a book comprising descriptions of the larger British lepidoptera (macro-lepidoptera), with coloured figures of them all in their perfect state, and many in the larval stage. There are also a few pages given to the micro-lepidoptera, with coloured illustrations of their characteristic species. It is a book of the popular rather than the scientific order, one for information and reference useful to collectors who wish to know where and when to find the objects of their pursuit. The coloured plates, of which there are no fewer than seventy, each comprising usually some twenty or thirty figures, are, as might be expected from the price of the work, not of a high order, but are often good, and probably always sufficient for the purpose of recognition, which is the main value of a work of this kind.
Butterflies and Moths of the United Kingdom.
By Dr. W. Egmont Kirby. Pp. lii + 468. (London: Geo. Routledge and Sons, Ltd.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., n.d.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
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Butterflies and Moths of the United Kingdom . Nature 82, 126 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/082126c0
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