The butterfly vivarium, or, Insect home: being an account of a new method of observing the curious metamorphoses of some of the most beautiful of our native insects. Comprising also a popular description of the habits and instincts of many of the insects of the various classes referred to; with suggestions for the successful study of entomology by means of an insect vivarium / by H. Noel Humphreys ... Illustrated with coloured engravings.
A popular entomology manual by Henry Noel Humphreys, published in London by W. Lay in 1858, explaining how to keep and observe native insects through their metamorphoses in a glass vivarium. Hand-coloured plates group butterflies, moths, caterpillars and chrysalides among clover, moss and foliage, while the text pages carry ornamental initials drawn as foliate scrolls, holly leaves, twined serpents and small seated figures.
