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Paperback. Condizione: New. Print on Demand. This book is a comprehensive and richly illustrated monograph on the Lepidoptera Heterocera of South India, focusing on the Nilgiri district. The author presents a systematic list of all the Lepidoptera Heterocera hitherto recorded from the Nilgiri district of South India, with descri…ptions and figures of numerous new species. The work is based on material collected by the author in various parts of the district during the year 1888 and now transferred to the British Museum. It has been prepared by Mr. G. F. Hampson, who has kindly supplied me with the following particulars as regards the physical features of this district: "The Nilgiri district consists of a wedge shaped spur of mountains, with a base of 30 miles, and an extreme length of 60 miles, running out from the Western Ghats and forming the commencement of the Eastern Ghats. The plains at the foot of the hills have an average temperature of some 80° F., whilst the plateau, with a mean temperature of but little over 60° F., is subject to sharp frosts in December and January; its elevation is from 6000 to 7000 feet, peaks running up to nearly 9000 feet from the plateau precipitous slopes descend on the west to the plains of Malabar, but little above sea-level on the south to the Palghat Gap, 1000 feet and on the north to the Mysore plateau, 3000 feet. The western slopes forming part of the face of the Ghats get a rainfall of 300 inches, while on the lower slopes at the eastern end the rainfall does not exceed 30 inches, so that the most diverse conditions obtain; consequently, while the Western slopes have a tropical Ceylonese fauna, the Eastern have that characteristic of the arid plains of India; whilst on the plateau many outlying members of the Palaearctic fauna occur." The materials on which this Monograph has been based are as follows: 1. A collection of about 1000 species made by the Author in various parts of the district during the year 1888 and now transferred to the British Museum; to each specimen of this collection the elevation and date of capture were affixed. 2. A collection of about 700 species made on the southern slopes by Mr. Alfred Lindsay during the last fifteen years, of which a selection has been retained for the British Museum. 3. The numerous species of Nilgiri Moths in Col. C. Swinhoe's Collection supplemented by a few species from Mr. F. Moore's and the old British Museum Collections. References and synonymy are only given when they in any way differ from those in Cotes and Swinhoe's Catalogue of the Moths of India, and the arrangement of that work has been followed, except in the Pyrales, in which the order of the genera is that adopted in the British Museum. Mr. Warren, who has recently arranged this part of the Museum Collection, has kindly placed his Manuscript Notes on the synonymy, so far as they aifect Nilgiri species, at my disposal. Our best thanks are due to Mr. Hampson for the care and time which he has devoted to the preparation of this part; to Mr. Moore and Col. Swinhoe, who have given him much assistance during the progress of the work and to Prof. Westwood, who has allowed him free access to the Hope Collection in the Oxford Museum. ALBERT GUNTHER, Keeper of the Department of Zoology. British Museum, N. H., April 23, 1891. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.
