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WE have again to congratulate Sir George F. Hampson and the Trustees of the British Museum on the completion of another volume of the great catalogue of moths, which bids fair to surpass even the catalogue of birds in extent and importance. Vol. viii., now before us, is the fifth volume devoted to the Noctuidae, and the second of the great subfamily Acronyctinas, which it will require a third volume to complete. Fifteen subfamilies of Noctuidae were indicated by the author at the commencement of his work; possibly he may find it necessary to increase the number before its completion. The Acronyctinas, occupying three volumes, is only the fourth subfamily out of the fifteen, but, in the sense in which the author employs it, it is, perhaps, the most extensive of all. The remaining subfamilies, with three or four exceptions, appear likely to be of very much smaller dimensions.
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum.
Vol. viii., Catalogue of the Noctuidæ. By Sir George F. Hampson., Bart. Pp. xiv + 583; pls. cxxiii–cxxxvi, and 162 text-figures. (London: British Museum, Natural History, 1909.) Text, price 15s.; plates, price 12s.
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Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum . Nature 81, 455 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/081455a0
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