Abstract
THE forty-seventh volume of the Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute constitutes a record of much valuable and painstaking research, dealing chiefly with the fauna and flora of the Dominion. It is gratifying to find that the war has interfered so little with the activities of New Zealand naturalists, and that so many ardent workers are now engaged in adding to our already very extensive knowledge of this important region. Most of the papers in this volume are of a systematic character, and probably work of this kind is the most important that can be undertaken at the present time in New Zealand. Such papers, however, naturally appeal to a very limited number of readers, especially when they are written in the ultra-technical language which so many systematists seem to prefer. This appears very markedly in Mr. Meyrick's revision of New Zealand Tineina, in which the diagnosis of the very first genus contains the following cryptic sentence—if sentence it can be called:—“Hindwings under 1, termen abruptly emarginate beneath acutely produced apex; 3 and 4 rather approximated, 5 nearly parallel, 6 and 7 rather approximated towards base.”
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D., A. The New Zealand Institute . Nature 97, 19 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097019a0
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