Comprehensive and easy to use reference book, intended as a field guide for identification of caterpillars. This book should be regarded as a supplement to Porter: The Colour Identification Guide to Caterpillars of the British Isles because Central Europe houses many species unknown to the British Isles. It covers 260 species of the families Sphingidae, Arctiidae, Notodontidae, Lasiocampidae, Lymantridae, Saturniidae and Noctuidae.