Notas sobre los lepidopteros de Chile manuscript, ca. 1895

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Notes: Title transcribed from ms. t.p. (p. [1]), as it was written by the unknown person who created this manuscript; however, the text of the manuscript itself is in French, not Spanish.; Manuscript in pen and ink, based on Izquierdo's article by the same title, originally published in Anales de la Universidad de Chile, t. 90 (1895) p. 783-835. It has not been determined whether this is a translation, paraphrase, or adaptation of Izquierdo's article.
Summary: A descriptive overview of 16 of the main varieties of butterflies and moths found in Chile. Includes 3 mounted leaves of tracing paper, bearing pen and ink sketches presumably copied from illustrations in the published article, plus one hand-colored sketch drawn on graph paper.