The Lepidoptera of the British Islands; a Descriptive Account of the Families, Genera, and Species indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland, their Preparatory States Habits, and Localities

Abstract

MR. BARRETT'S great work on British Lepidoptera is making steady progress, and we are glad to find that the second volume which includes the Sphinges and the first nine families of Bombyces, ending with the Psychidæ, is written in the same careful and painstaking manner as its predecessor. The first volume has been well received abroad, but the foreign Critics regret the absence of references, a deficiency more felt by them than by British lepidopterists. The foreign critics speak of the plates as a veritable storehouse of remarkable varieties; but we must again comment very severely on the action of the publishers in issuing two editions of the work, one with, and the other without illustrations, without any reference to the illustrated edition in the letterpress of the other, so far as we have noticed; and in the case of the second volume, without even as much as an advertisement to call attention to its existence.

The Lepidoptera of the British Islands; a Descriptive Account of the Families, Genera, and Species indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland, their Preparatory States Habits, and Localities.

By Charles G. Barrett Vol. ii. Heterocera, Sphinges, Bombyces. (London: L. Reeve and Co., 1895.)