The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera

We have converted all back issues of the JRL to PDF format. These files are made available for your download from the tables of contents that are linked to from this page. All of the articles are available for non-commercial, personal and scientific use.

At this time we do not have any search capability for the archived PDFs. For the more recent PDFs (Volumes 28 and later), which were prepared from the same files used for the original publication, the PDFs themselves are searchable and should be indexed in google. Older articles were scanned and converted to PDF. Hence they are not searchable. Also, since our primary goal was to maximize quality, high resolution scans were used, resulting in large file sizes for articles with grey scale or color images.

NOTE: Some of the PDF files are quite large (many MBs). We opted for high quality scans (600 dpi), which have resulted in some large file sizes for articles with multiple color/greyscale images. Our feeling was that for scientific purposes, quality was paramount. If you have trouble with the big files, take solace in the fact that in a few years, you won't, as bandwidth, memory, disk space, and processing speed all become more plentiful.

Many thanks to Zdenka Krenova and Soyka Beran for scanning in all of the paper issues of the Journal.