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THIS work is expected to be completed in about ten parts; and the first part is accompanied by a portrait of R. C. Stægel, an eminent Danish dipterist. The book is written in English, and as it appears to be very carefully done will prove very useful to English entomologists who take up the study of Diptera, which has been more neglected in England than any other order of insects, and respecting which we possess no complete work at present; though most European countries possess good monographs of Diptera in their own languages. The introduction relates chiefly to structure, illustrated by figures of structure and neuration. The other text-illustrations represent details of structure, such as heads, wings, palpi, &c. One term is new to us—the “yowls,” which from the context seems to. apply to the lower part of the face. The English is very good, but somewhat stilted, and occasionally rather unfamiliar words are used, such as “kinks” and “kneeformed.”
Diptera Danica. Genera and Species of Flies hitherto found in Denmark.
Part I. By William Lundbeck. (Copenhagen: G. E. C. Gad; London: William Wesley and Son, 1907.) Price 4s. 6d. net.
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Diptera Danica Genera and Species of Flies hitherto found in Denmark. Nature 76, 469 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076469a0
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