Butterflies and Moths (British)

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Furneaux William Samuel. Butterflies and Moths (British)

PREFACE

PART I. STRUCTURE AND LIFE-HISTORY OF THE LEPIDOPTERA

CHAPTER I. GENERAL CHARACTERS

CHAPTER II. THE EGG

CHAPTER III. THE LARVA

CHAPTER IV. THE PUPA OR CHRYSALIS

CHAPTER V. CLASSIFICATION OF THE LEPIDOPTERA

PART II. WORK AT HOME AND IN THE FIELD

CHAPTER VI. CATCHING BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS

CHAPTER VII. COLLECTING OVA, LARVÆ, AND PUPÆ

CHAPTER VIII. REARING LEPIDOPTERA

CHAPTER IX. SETTING AND PRESERVING

CHAPTER X. PRESERVING OVA, LARVÆ AND PUPÆ

CHAPTER XI. THE CABINET—ARRANGEMENT OF SPECIMENS

PART III. BRITISH BUTTERFLIES

CHAPTER XII. THE SWALLOW-TAIL AND THE 'WHITES'

CHAPTER XIII. THE FRITILLARIES, VANESSAS, AND THE PURPLE EMPEROR

CHAPTER XIV. THE BROWNS AND HEATHS

CHAPTER XV. THE HAIRSTREAKS, COPPERS AND BLUES

CHAPTER XVI. THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY AND THE SKIPPERS

PART IV. COMMON BRITISH MOTHS

CHAPTER XVII. SPHINGES

CHAPTER XVIII. BOMBYCES

CHAPTER XIX. THE NOCTUÆ

CHAPTER XX. GEOMETRÆ

CHAPTER XXI. THE MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA

APPENDICES

APPENDIX I

COMPLETE CLASSIFIED LIST OF BRITISH MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA

APPENDIX II. THE LEPIDOPTERIST'S CALENDAR

COLOURED PLATES

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The favourable reception with which the 'Out-door World' has been greeted has encouraged the publishers to issue a series of volumes dealing in fuller detail with the various branches of Natural History treated of in that work. Necessarily each subject was only briefly touched upon, but the study is of so enticing a character that 'appetite grows by feeding,' and the students of the 'Out-door World,' having tasted the sweetness of companionship with Nature, will not rest satisfied with the help afforded by that handbook. Each one will want to go deeper into that particular department which most appeals to his own inclinations.

The present volume is written expressly for those who desire to extend their knowledge of the British Lepidoptera, or, to use the more popular names, 'Butterflies and Moths.'

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The former are very small caterpillars – the larvæ of certain small moths – that eat burrows into leaves without doing any considerable injury to the outer epidermis, and thus prepare a safe resting place within the substance of their food.

The latter, also mostly of small size, make themselves secure by curling a leaf or a portion of a leaf into a cylinder, and holding it in position by means of a number of silken threads.

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