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NOW that the study of entomology has become so widely extended, and of so much more importance, both medically and agriculturally, than was even suspected a few years ago, the publication of catalogues of the various orders and families of insects at frequent intervals has become an absolute necessity, for monographs and catalogues have become as indispensable to the study of any group of natural objects as are grammars and dictionaries to the study of a language. Often when a catalogue is published in several volumes, the stimulus to the study of the groups with which they deal is so great that the earlier ones are practically almost out of date before the later ones can be issued.
Catalogue of the Hemiptera (Heteroptera), with Biological and Anatomical References, Lists of Food-Plants and Parasites, &c.
Prefaced by a Discussion on Nomenclature, and an Analytical Table of Families. Vol. i., Cimicidæ. By G. W. Kirkaldy. Pp. xl+392. (Berlin: Felix L. Dames, 1909.)
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K., W. Catalogue of the Hemiptera (Heteroptera), with Biological and Anatomical References, Lists of Food-Plants and Parasites, &c . Nature 83, 154 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/083154a0
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