The Butterflies of America

Abstract

THE second edition of Dr. W. J. Holland's “Butterfly Book” brings the subject matter up to date. The text has to a large extent been rewritten and a number of plates have been added, all the species of butterflies occurring in America north of Mexico being depicted, with the exception of a few obscure or doubtful ones. The introduction deals with collecting, breeding, preserving, and classifying specimens, and with manuals, catalogues, and check-lists of North American butterflies. The generic descriptions are illustrated by text-figures of wing-neuration, and occasionally by some additional detail of structure. The descriptions of species are kept as short as possible, the life-history, if known, being added, and the distribution of each species and variety noted. The interpolated chapters of an anecdotal or educative nature are very pleasing interruptions of the necessarily dry and monotonous descriptive text. A complete alphabetical index greatly facilitates the use of the book.

The Butterfly Book: a Popular and Scientific Manual, describing and depicting all the Butterflies of the United States and Canada.

By Dr. W. J. Holland. (The Nature Library.) Pp. xii + 424 + 77 plates. (Garden City, N.Y.: Double-day, Doran and Co., Inc., 1931.) 10 dollars.