This is a beautiful set of 3 sheets of 9, issued in 1998, displaying butterflies. Featured insects shown include the Purple Emperor, Grayling, Map Butterfly, Portuguese Dappled White, Clouded Apollo, Eversmann's Parnassian, Desert Apollo, Chalk-Hill Blue, Adonis Blue, Monarch Butterfly, Anaea Nessus, Mimic Dismorphiine, Hahnel's Amazonian Swallowtail, Spotted Amberwing, Julia Butterfly, Postman Butterfly, Numata Longwing, Afrotropical Kite Swallowtail, Gideona Lucasi, Colotis Zoe, Physcaeneura Leda, Trimen's False Acraea, Border Butterfly, Madagascan Friar, African Swallowtail, and the Comoro Friar, among others. The set is fresh, mint never hinged, and F/VF.