Abstract
NOTWITFISTANDING the large number of books relating to British butterflies, there was still room for a pocket handbook which should do for the present generation what Coleman's “British Butterflies” did for the last, and this want Mr. South has set himself to provide. He has succeeded in giving us a portable little book, well up to date, containing full information about structure, transformation, setting,. &c., besides a good account of the individual species. The plates contain coloured figures of the butterflies. on one side of the page, and plain figures of caterpillars, &c., on the back, thus doubling the number of page illustrations without adding to the thickness of the book. The illustrations in the text are nearly all in the introduction. They are uncoloured, and some of them are taken from Sharp, Aurivillius, and other trustworthy authorities.
The Butterflies of the British Isles.
By Richard South. Pp. x + 204. (London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1906.) Price 6s. net.
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K., W. The Butterflies of the British Isles . Nature 74, 465 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074465b0
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