1869 vii, 375 p., 46 figs, 4 lithographed pls of which 2 hand-coloured, frontispiece (portrait of Harris), original embossed pebbled cloth. Occasional papers of the Boston Natural History Society 1. Upper right corner of half-title clipped (with no loss of text). Includes the following appedices: Descriptions of Larvae. Memoranda of their Metamorphoses, Habits, etc. (pp. 265-324), Descriptions of Insects Selected from the Manuscripts of Dr. Harris (pp. 325-336), & Articles or Fragments, hitherto Obscure or Inaccessible, Reprinted from the Original Documents (pp. 337-366). The starts off with a Memoir (biography) of Thaddeus William Harris by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and a list of his writings.