Notices sur les Lépidoptères de la Corse. 1re [-3e] Notice

Description:

Scarce. The complete series of Paul Mabille’s three notices on the Lepidoptera of Corsica, published separately in the Annales de la Société entomologique de France 4e serie, Tome VI (1866): 545-564, VII (1867): 635-658, IX (1869): 53-80. Based on material collected and studied on the island, the papers provide records, observations and descriptions of the Corsican Lepidoptera, including a number of new taxa. Particular attention is devoted to the Geometridae, with a enumeration of the Corsican species of Eupithecia, continued through the second and third notices, together with a list of the Acidaliinae recorded from Corsica.

Condition

3 offprints bound together, 8vo, later plain card wrappers. Some foxing. The five figures called for in the first notice are cropped from the original plate. Vg.