| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1885 |
| Authors: | A. G. Butler |
| Journal: | Cistula Entomologica |
| Volume: | 3 |
| Issue: | 29 |
| Start Page: | 113 |
| Pagination: | 113-136 |
| Date Published: | 11/1885 |
| Other Numbers: | Papyrus 951 |
| Keywords: | AMBULYX, CATALOGUE, JAPAN, SPHINGIDAE, SPHINX, WORLDMAP1 |
| URL: | https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40224#page/157/mode/1up |
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The Introduction is a classic that remains as true today as it was then: "Although it is not considered a correct thing to look a gift-horse in the mouth, I must express a wish that Mr. Pryer had not sent me his most dilapidated specimens for identification; the study of the Heterocera is sufficiently difficult in the case of good specimens, but when not merely half the pattern and colouring is missing, but the head and sometimes also the legs and abdomen, the chances against the identification of a moth are greatly increased if not entirely annihilated."