Title: Coleoptera
First published: 1954
Description: A scholarly and scientific work, part of a series published for the (then) South London Entomological and Natural History Society (later to become the British Entomological and Natural History Society).

Part of a series of twelve volumes, each divided into sections authored by different people according to their speciality, this one is part 9 of volume 5, and describes beetles Lagriidae-Meloidae.  The series, called 'Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects' aims to provide enough information to identify each animal, by means of illustrations, and details about biology, morphology, and distribution.
Subjects: coleoptera, beetles, natural history
Places: British Isles
Time periods: 1954