Novitates Zoologicae. Vol. I, No. 2 (Text only) [with Plates (by F.W. Frohawk) for Vol. I, No. 1]

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The text only for Vol. I, No 2 is here bound with the plates for Vol. I, No 1. Contents: Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Phytophagous Coleoptera obtained by W. Doherty in the Malayan Archipelago by Martin Jacoby (pp. 267-330); An Account of a Collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera made by Mr W. Doherty at Humboldt Bay, Dutch New Guinea, and in neighbouring islands by H. Grose Smith (pp. 331-365 + 543-551); New Genera and Species of Geometridae by W. Warren (pp. 366-466); First Glimpses of the Zoology of the Natuna Islands by Walter Rothschild (pp. 467-483) and several other short papers. The text for Vol. I, No 2 calls for 3 plates which are not present. The 6 fine chromolithographic plates bound in this volume illustrate the text in the previous part - Vol. I, No 1 - and are by F.W. Frohawk (3 of Sphingidae (Lep.) and 3 of Cerambycidae (Col.)).

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4to, rebound in recent buckram with leather title piece to spine. Vg.