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To Accompany The Paintings Are Descriptions Of Comparable Quality. A Lifetime Of Patient Study And Observation Has Culminated In A Text Which Is Both Comprehensive And Unique In Its Blend Of Originality, Precision And Charm. Many Of The Behaviour-patterns Described Here Have Never Before Been Recorded. To Facilitate Identification, There Are Comprehensive Cross-references From Text To Illustralion And From Illustration To Text. In Addition To Illustrations And Descriptions, The Volume Contains An Introduction On Taxonomy, Classification And Life-histories; Notes On Collection And Mounting Of Butterflies; A Complete Glossary Of Scientific Term, An Appendix On The Lives Of The Discoverers; Indexes Of Popular, Scientific And Botanic Names, A Map With Geographic Index Showing Territories Of Species, And A Bibliography Of All Significant Butterfly Literature To Date.--book Jacket. With A Foreword By Robert Menzies. Bibliography: P. 187-197.