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Title: LEAVES FROM A MOTH - HUNTER'S NOTEBOOK.
Description: Haringdon / Oxon, E. W. Classey, 1980. 1st edition. hardback with gilt lettering, 20,5cmx13,5cm, Fine copy. Published posthumously. Edited and with an introduction by Ronald S. Wilkinson. Frontispiece-portrait of the author. Contents: I). The middle copper. II). The mazarine blue. 3). The swallow-tail mystery. IV). The oak prominents. V). Larva-hunting on spring VI). Moths in a searchlight. VII). Interlude. 1). Accidents. 2). Wishful thinking. 3). On keeping a diary. 4). Swallow-tails in Devon. 5). This matter of eggs. 6). Nemesis and the Leopard moth. 7). Tiger-moth and tarts. VIII). Some possible settlers. 1). The queen of Spain. 2). 'Dorilis', the copper. 3). A fine blue: 'Polymmatus amandus'. 4). The feathered footman. 5). The pine lappet: 'Dendrolimus oini'. 6). The hoplite: 'Hoplitis milhauseri'. 7). The nun moth: 'Panthea coenobita. 8). A larva that eats beet: 'Hadema blenna'. 9). A new hook-tip: 'Panthea coenobita.. With Appendix: 1). The Glanville fritillary. 2). Editor's postscript. With notes and index. Philip Bertram Murray Allan (1884-1973), who also wrote under the pseudonyms Francis Cabochon and Alban M. Phillip, was a British author and publisher. 281 pag.

Keywords: r.. wilkingson tutt chapman dale mottenjagers entomology butterflies insects motten .

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