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• Lepidoptera -- Catalogs and collections
• Lepidoptera -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
• Lepidoptera -- North America
• Lepidoptera -- Palearctic
• Lepidoptera -- Periodicals
• Lepidoptera -- Russia
• Bombycidae
• Butterflies
• Caterpillars
• Moths
• Nymphalidae
• Pterophoridae
• Saturniidae

• Lepidopterans
• Macrolepidoptera
• Microlepidoptera

• Lepidoptera of the Congo: Being a Systematic List of the Butterflies and Moths Collected by the American Museum of Natural History Congo Expedition, Together With Descriptions of Some Hitherto Undescribed Species (1920), by W. J. Holland (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Descriptions of Heterocerous Lepidoptera From Congo, by Francis Walker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Lepidoptera of the Congo: Being a Systematic List of the Butterflies and Moths Collected by the American Museum of Natural History Congo Expedition, Together With Descriptions of Some Hitherto Undescribed Species (1920), by W. J. Holland (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Butterflies and Moths of North America, by Paul A. Opler, Harry Pavulaan, and Ray E. Stanford (illustrated HTML at butterfliesandmoths.org)

• The Butterfly Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1922), by W. J. Holland (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Butterflies and Moths of North America, by Paul A. Opler, Harry Pavulaan, and Ray E. Stanford (illustrated HTML at butterfliesandmoths.org)

• The Pterophoridae of North America (revised edition; Boston: Wright and Potter, 1898), by C. H. Fernald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Butterflies and Moths of North America, by Paul A. Opler, Harry Pavulaan, and Ray E. Stanford (illustrated HTML at butterfliesandmoths.org)

• Catalog der Lepidopteren des Palaearctischen Faunengebietes (2 volumes; Berlin: R. Friedländer und Sohn, 1901), by Otto Staudinger and H. Rebel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Catalog der Lepidopteren des Palaearctischen Faunengebietes (2 volumes; Berlin: R. Friedländer und Sohn, 1901), by Otto Staudinger and H. Rebel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society (partial serial archives)

• Fauna Lepidopterologica Volga-Uralensis: Exhibens Lepidopterorum Species Quas per Viginti Quinque Annos in Provinciis Volgam Fluvium Inter et Montes Uralenses Sitis Observavit et Descripsit Eduardus Eversmann (in Latin; Casani: Typis Universitatis, 1844), by Eduard Friedrich Eversmann
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Reformed Common-Wealth of Bees: Presented In Severall Letters and Observations To Sammuel Hartlib; With The Reformed Virginian Silk-Worm, Containing Many Excellent and Choice Secrets, Experiments, and Discoveries For Attaining of National and Private Profits and Riches (London: Printed for G. Calvert, 1655), by Samuel Hartlib
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Cornell

• The Silkewormes, and Their Flies (London: Printed by V. S. for N. Ling, 1599), by Thomas Moffett
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Butterflies Worth Knowing (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1923), by Clarence Moores Weed (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)

• Atlas of North Dakota Butterflies (electronic edition), by Ronald A. Royer (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Sweet Girl Goldie: A Wonder Story of Butterfly Time (book cut in shape of a butterfly; New York: Spinney and Perkins and Hatch Lithographic Co., c1884), by Lizbeth Bullock Humphrey
  • page images at Univ of Florida
  • page images at childrenslibrary.org

• The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast, by R. M. Ballantyne, contrib. by William Roscoe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Rambles of a Butterfly (London: Darton, 1819), by Mary Elliott (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Bashful Earthquake, and Other Fables and Verses (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1898), by Oliver Herford
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org
  • page images at ufl.edu

• Atlas of North Dakota Butterflies (electronic edition), by Ronald A. Royer (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Atlas of North Dakota Butterflies (electronic edition), by Ronald A. Royer (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Winged Anthology: A Collection of Representative Poems Relating to Birds, Butterflies, and Moths, From 1536 to 1914 (London: J. Richmond, 1914), ed. by Irene Osgood and Horace Wyndham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Suppliant Women (c1930), by Aeschylus, trans. by Gilbert Murray (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Suppliant Women, by Aeschylus, trans. by Herbert Weir Smyth (Javascript-dependent HTML at Perseus)
• The Suppliants, by Aeschylus, trans. by E. D. A. Morshead (HTML at Internet Classics)
• The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus, by Aeschylus, trans. by E. D. A. Morshead (Gutenberg text)

• Moths of the Limberlost, by Gene Stratton-Porter (Gutenberg text)
• Moths of the Limberlost, With Water Color and Photographic Illustrations From Life (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and company, 1916), by Gene Stratton-Porter (black and white page images at Google; US access only)

• The Winged Anthology: A Collection of Representative Poems Relating to Birds, Butterflies, and Moths, From 1536 to 1914 (London: J. Richmond, 1914), ed. by Irene Osgood and Horace Wyndham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Pterophoridae of North America (revised edition; Boston: Wright and Potter, 1898), by C. H. Fernald (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• What Does the Honeybee See? And How Do We Know? A Critique of Scientific Reason (2009), by G. Adrian Horridge (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Book of Monsters (Washington: National Geographic Society, 1914), by David Fairchild and Marian Fairchild
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Elementary Text-Book of Entomology (second edition; London: W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co., New York: Macmillan, 1892), by W. F. Kirby (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Glossary to Say's Entomology (Philadelphia: S. A. Mitchell, 1825), by Thomas Say (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of the Grasshopper (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920), by Jean-Henri Fabre, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Our Common Insects: A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses (Salem: Naturalists' Agency; Boston: Estes and Lauriat; New York: Dodd and Mead, 1873), by A. S. Packard
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects, by Jean-Henri Fabre, trans. by Bernard Miall and Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (Gutenberg text)
• College Entomology (New York: Macmillan, 1947), by E. O. Essig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wild Nature's Ways (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1909), by Richard Kearton, illust. by Cherry Kearton and Richard Kearton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Story of the Rear Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, by James S. Jameson, ed. by Mrs. James S. Jameson, illust. by Charles Whymper (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Corixidae of the Western Hemisphere (Hemiptera) (University of Kansas Science Bulletin v. 32; 1948), by H. B. Hungerford, contrib. by R. I. Sailer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Insect Architecture (London: Bell and Daldy, 1869), by James Rennie, ed. by J. G. Wood (images at HathiTrust)

• Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects (Washington: GPO, 1892), by Charles V. Riley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Manual of Entomological Techniques (seventh edition; 1953), by Alvah Peterson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Disease in a Minor Chord: Being a Semihistorical and Semibiographical Account of a Period in Science When One Could Be Happily Yet Seriously Concerned with the Diseases of Lowly Animals Without Backbones, Especially the Insects (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1975), by Edward A. Steinhaus (PDF at Ohio State)

• Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, trans. by David Wyllie (Gutenberg text)
• Tainaron: Mail from Another City, by Leena Krohn, trans. by Hildi Hawkins (HTML in Finland)

• Die Apterygotenfauna Finlands (2 volumes in 1, in Finnish; 1907), by Walter Mikael Linnaniemi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Popular British Entomology: Containing a Familiar and Technical Description of the Insects Most Common to the Localities of the British Isles (second edition; London: Reeve and Co., 1852), by Maria E. Catlow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Nomenclature of British Insects: Being a Compendious List of Such Species as are Contained in the Systematic Catalogue of British Insects, and Forming a Guide to Their Classification (London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1829), by James Francis Stephens (PDF at MSU)

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