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THE previous volumes of this important work appeared in 1898, 1900, and 1901 respectively, and we have now to record the publication of vol. iv., which includes the Agrotinae, the first of the fifteen subfamilies into which the great family of Noctuidæ is divided; 1139 Agrotinæ are described in the present volume, out of the 10,000 to 12,000 known species of Noctuidæ.
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum.
Vol. iv. Catalogue of the Noctuidæ in the Collection of the British Museum. By Sir George F. Hampson., Bart. Pp. xx+689, plates lv.–lxxvii., and 125 woodcuts. (London: Printed by Order of the Trustees.) Price 15s.; plates 16s.
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Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum . Nature 69, 173 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/069173a0
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