FRUIT CHAFERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

164 coloured illustrations on 32 plates serve as a guide to identification of species along with distribution maps and line drawings. This monograph is accessible to both the layman and the professional entymologist, includes an up to date synonymy, bibliography, whereabouts of type material and the first comprehensive key to the taxa.

Sea green cloth boards. 326 pages,  illustrated colour plates. Slight wear to dust jacket edges.

Beetles are the most diversified group of creatures on earth, accounting for nearly one quarter of all living species. They also include some of the most spectacularly beautiful forms, with a fantsy of shape and colour only equalled by butterflies and birds. This book is a first to present a group of Southern African beetles comprehensively and authoritatively to a nonspecialist audience. At the same time it constitutes the first monograph of these beetles since 1907.