Out of Print Publications
BRITISH SOLDIERFLIES AND THEIR ALLIES:
By Alan Stubbs and Martin Drake with colour photographs by David Wilson.
Published 2001, 528 pp, 20 colour plates.
Hardback: £30 non-members, £20 members; plus postage £5.20 for single copy (£8.40 for 2 copies or £9.50 for 3 copies) within UK. Charges for postage and packing for a larger consignment, or for outside the UK, are available on application.
Including Bee-flies, Horseflies, Robberflies, Snipeflies and Stiletto-flies. The families represented are: Acroceridae, Asilidae, Athericidae, Bombyliidae, Rhagionidae, Scenopinidae, Stratiomyidae, Tabanidae, Therevidae, Xylomyidae and Xylophagidae. This comprehensive publication draws together much previously dispersed information and contains considerable original work. The British fauna is a remarkable assemblage of extraordinary and fascinating species, which are varied in both their appearance and life styles. Many species are of conservation significance, being associated with vulnerable and scarce micro-habitats.
The book includes well-illustrated keys to the adults of all 162 British species, and to the larvae and pupae of several families. Each species has an account of its ecology and natural history, incorporating much new information on the ecology and behaviour of these fascinating flies. Colour plates depict adults of most species, taken by a leading photographer of insect specimens, with an additional colour plate showing eye patterns of horseflies. This hardback book comprises 528 pages, with 18 colour plates of the adult flies and two of their early stages, as well as numerous line drawings alongside the keys and on plates depicting important identification features.
NEW BRITISH BEETLES: species not in Joy's practical handbook.
By Peter J.Hodge and Richard A.Jones. 1995. 192 pages.
There are over 650 British beetles not included in Norman Joy's "Practical Handbook of British beetles". Some of these are new arrivals from the Continent or farther afield. Several formerly rare species have recently increased and some doubtful species have been confirmed as occurring, or having once occurred, in Britain. Others have been confused with other species or overlooked and many groups have undergone taxonomic revision. "New British Beetles" puts these changes into perspective, and offers the British coleopterist a new look at Joy's book, a reference to the current British fauna and the changes that have taken place.