This volume is one of a series of books that were published as part of The Naturalist's Library, an whose purpose was to make natural history available to all levels of Victorian society. The series was edited by Sir William Jardien, 7th Baronet of Applegirth (1800-1874).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Jardine,_7th_Baronet
This volume and several others in the series on insects were written by Scottish zoologist, James Duncan (1804-1861),
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Duncan_(zoologist)
The volume also includes a "memoir" about Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817), a German Geologist who has been called the "Father of German Geology", and an account of the Wanerian Natural History Society (1808-1858), a learned society interested in the broad field of natural history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Gottlob_Werner\
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernerian_Natural_History_Society
Added t.p., engraved,Reprint of his The natural history of British butterflies. 1835,Memoir of Werner", translation of the Éloge of Baron Cuvier: p. [17]-40"
