COLEMAN'S BRITISH BUTTERFLIES.
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B R I T I S H B U T T E R F L I E S
FIGURES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF
EVERY NATIVE SPECIES
WITH AN ACCOUNT OF
BUTTERFLY DEVELOPMENT, STRUCTURE, HABITS, LOCALITIES,
MODE OF CAPTURE, AND PRESERVATION
By W. S. COLEMAN
AUTHOR OF "OUR WOODLANDS, HEATHS, AND HEDGES"
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
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COMMON OBJECTS OF THE SEA-SHORE.
By the Rev. J. G. Wood.
COMMON OBJECTS OF THE COUNTRY.
By the Rev. J. G. Wood.
OUR WOODLANDS, HEATHS, and HEDGES.
By W. S. Coleman.
BRITISH BIRDS, EGGS, AND NESTS. By
the Rev. J. C. Atkinson.
COMMON BRITISH MOTHS. By the Rev.
J. G. Wood.
COMMON BRITISH BEETLES. By the Rev.
J. G. Wood.
P R E F A C E.
A desire to extend the knowledge of, and by so doing to extend the love for, those sunny creatures called Butterflies, has prompted the author to undertake this little work, which, though making no pretence to a technically scientific character, will, it is hoped, be found sufficiently complete and accurate to supply all information needful to the young entomologist as to the names, appearance, habits, localities, &c. of all our British Butterflies, together with a general history of butterfly life—the mode of capture, preservation, and arrangement in cabinets—the apparatus required, &c. At the