[Six offprints:] VI. Life-histories of Rhopalocera from the Australian region. [Bound with:] An Afternoon among the Butterflies of Thursday Island. [Bound with:] Rough Notes on the Natural History of the Claremont Islands [Bound with:] VI. Descriptions of Some New Species of Rhopalocera from the Solomon Islands [Bound with:] V. Life-history of Three Species of Western Pacific Rhopalocera [Bound with:] Descriptions of Some New Species of Rhopalocera from the Solomon Islands.

Mathew, Gervase Frederick

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Bound together in contemoporary half cloth, marbled sides, worn, upper outer corner a little bumped throughout. Inscribed by the author on front flyleaf in 1888. The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London / Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales / Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1885-1888. Paginated 137-88; 259-66; 251-8; 37-49; 357-68; 343-50 + a total of 4 coloured plates. Musgrave, pp. 219-220. - - - Gervase Frederick Mathew (1842-1928) was an English naval officer and entomologist. He was sometime based in the Mediterranean then at Sydney and in Fiji and travelled extensively in the central Pacific. He introduced Edward Meyrick to the fauna of the central Pacific islands. Gervase Mathew was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London the Zoological Society of London and the Linnean Society.

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• Title: [Six offprints:] VI. Life-histories of Rhopalocera from the Australian region. [Bound with:] An Afternoon among the Butterflies of Thursday Island. [Bound with:] Rough Notes on the Natural History of the Claremont Islands [Bound with:] VI. Descriptions of Some New Species of Rhopalocera from the Solomon Islands [Bound with:] V. Life-history of Three Species of Western Pacific Rhopalocera [Bound with:] Descriptions of Some New Species of Rhopalocera from the Solomon Islands.
• Binding: Hardcover