A Practical Handbook of British Beetles

Abstract

A DESIDERATUM of long standing was a reasonably priced manual on British Coleoptera. The standard work by Fowler, and especially its illustrated edition, is beyond the means of most students and collectors of insects. In supplying this want, Dr. Joy has set himself the difficult task of dealing in a limited compass with a fauna of about 3560 different species. He approaches his subject with a background of wide experience as a coleopterist, and with a keen appreciation of the difficulties, which especially beginners encounter, in the identification of so many of the species of the order. He has, therefore, written what is essentially a manual of identification for the use of collectors.

A Practical Handbook of British Beetles.

By Norman H. Joy. In 2 volumes. Vol. 1. Pp. xxvii + 622. Vol. 2. Pp. 194 (170 plates). (London: H. F. and G. Witherby, 1932.) 63s. net.