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WE have already noticed the two preceding volumes of this work in some detail; and it is therefore unnecessary to say more respecting the general execution of this volume than that the letterpress is arranged in a similar manner, and that the execution of the woodcuts is equally good. The present volume includes the last two subfamilies of the Noctuidæ the Focillinæ,and the Deltoidinæ, and one or two small families of the Geometridæ. Respecting the Deltoidinæ, Mr. Hampson remarks: “It exhibits a gradual development from forms with straight palpi fringed with hairs above, such as Hypenæ, which is closely allied to the Sarrothripinæ, and to the ancestors of the Noctuidæ and Nolinæ, through forms with oblique palpi, to a group possessing palpi of an extremely curved sickle-shaped type; from this group arose the stouter-built, more typically noctuiform and nocturnal Focillinæ and Quadrifince”.; We seriously doubt the advisability of speaking in such a positive manner on questions which cannot, in the present state of our knowledge, be anything more than very doubtful vaductions, at the best.
The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma.
Published under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council. Edited by W. T. Blanford. ”Moths,” Vol. iii. By G. F. Hampson. (London: Taylor and Francis, 1895.)
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KIRBY, W. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Nature 51, 605 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/051605a0
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