Catalog der Lepidopteren des Palaearctischen Faunengebietes

Abstract

THE publication of the third edition of Staudinger and Wocke's Catalogue of Palæarctic Lepidoptera is an event of considerable importance. In the earlier part of the last century, the catalogues of European Lepidoptera most in use were those of Boisduval, who published the first edition of his “Index Methodicus,” including Papilio, Sphinx, Bombyx and Noctua (in the Linnean sense), in 1829; and the second edition, to which the Geometridæ were added, in 1840. The latter edition included 1941 species, among which are enumerated the few species then known from the Caucasus and Siberia; for Continental entomologists have always treated the insects of the adjacent countries as virtually forming part of the European fauna. In 1844 Duponchel published a more elaborate “Catalogue Méthodique des Lépidoptères d'Europe” (pp. xxx + 523), including the whole Order.

Catalog der Lepidopteren des Palaearctischen Faunengebietes.

I Theil: Famil. Papilionidæ—Hepialidæ. Von Dr. O. Staudinger und Dr. H. Rebel. Pp. xxxii + 411; portrait; II Theil: Famil. Pyralidæ—Micropterygidæ. Von Dr. H. Rebel. Pp. 368. 8vo. (Berlin: R. Friedländer und Sohn, Mai 1901.) Price Mk. 15 (paper); Mk. 16 (cloth).