The Lepidoptera of the British Islands A Descriptive Account of the Families, Genera and Species indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland, their Preparatory States, Habits and Localities

Abstract

THE fourth volume of Mr. Barrett's elaborate work includes ninety-eight species (three of which, however, are regarded by the author as doubtfully British) distributed among thirty genera of the Noctuæ Trifidæ, to which group belong by far the larger part of the European stout-bodied, night-flying moths. This gives us an average of something like four pages to each species, though many of the notices run to six or seven pages; and on such a scale it will require twenty volumes to complete the life-histories of our British Lepidoptera.

The Lepidoptera of the British Islands. A Descriptive Account of the Families, Genera and Species indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland, their Preparatory States, Habits and Localities.

By Charles G. Barrett Vol. iv. Heterocera. Noctuæ. 8vo, pp. 402. (London: Reeve, 1897.)