Butterflies of the Malay Pen. 5th edition

[Adam Cotton]

I have just received a pdf pre-pubication notice, and am reproducing the text of the first page here:


The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula

by

A. Steven Corbet & H.M. Pendlebury

5th edition (2020)


Revised by

George Michael van der Poorten

&

Nancy E. van der Poorten


authors of

The Butterfly Fauna of Sri Lanka
and

Field Guide to the Butterflies of Sri Lanka


ISBN: 978-983-44886-3-5


Southdene Sdn Bhd is pleased to announce the imminent publication of the fifth edition of Corbet and Pendlebury’s classic ‘The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula’.


This updated edition incorporates new information on distributions, life histories and larval food plants. The taxonomy of each species has been reviewed and revised where necessary, and the text and relevant keys have been updated with newly published information. The text runs to 506 pages and includes an extensive bibliography and full indices. Additionally, the layout has been modernized for better readability and aesthetics while several of the figures have been redrawn for clarity.


The book includes a completely new set of 132 colour plates illustrating every species reliably recorded from Singapore and the Malay Peninsula, showing the upperside and underside of both males and females of most species. The immature stages of selected species, representing each butterfly subfamily, are illustrated in 6 colour plates. Twenty-five pages of genitalia drawings are also included as supporting material for the species descriptions.


The basic cost will be US$60 (RM260) per volume plus postage/courier/freight, which will have to be assessed on an individual basis.


Printing will be done in Singapore and with severely restricted postal services in Malaysia due to COVID-19, postage/courier/freight costs will be minimised if copies can be despatched direct from Singapore at time of publication, currently estimated for October 2020.


Please contact Southdene Sdn Bhd via email [addresses deleted*] for your personalised estimate and prepublication payment arrangements.



* If anyone wants the e-mail addresses to enquire about ordering a copy please send me a PM here and I can provide them privately.

Adam.

[Adam Cotton]

The publishers have issued a printable pdf of a
"Corrigenda and Addenda to Corbet & Pendlebury’s The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula, 5th edition (2020)"

It is downloadable here:
www.lepodonbooks.com/corrigenda_C&P5.html

Adam.

[Adam Cotton]

I have received an e-mail from the authors informing me that the Corrigendum has been updated with new information and an additional plate of Lycaenidae specimens. The updated Corrigendum can be downloaded from the link in my previous post.

Adam.