Colchester: Harley Books, 1993. Quarto, colour illustrations, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper.

Deals with the biology and ecology of the fifty-seven species of Sphingidae that occur in the western Palaearctic - an area bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Sahara desert to the north and Siberia to the east. In the systematic section, a check list is followed by detailed descriptions, with distribution maps, and text figures of larval structures, pupae, genitalia, and wing patterns. An important feature of this book are the twenty superb colour plates.