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1957
The Lepidopterists' News
111
CHECK LIST OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF JAPAN. PART 3: GEOMETRIDM. Pp.219-364, 217a. 15 May 1956. PART 4: DREPANID/E— NOTODONT1D/E. Pp.365-429, 364a-d. 25 December 1956. By Hiroshi Inoue. Publisher: Rikusuisha Co., 112/4 Iriarai, Otaku, Japan. [Obtainable from the publisher, unbound, for $2.00 each for Parts 1-3 and $1.50 for Part 4, postpaid.]
The two preceding parts of this valuable List were reviewed earlier (Lepid. News 9: p. 159; 10: p.57). The excellent typography continues unchanged in the two present parts. Here is a comparison of numbers of recorded species of Japan and two other well-worked and widely separated regions. Japan appears to be proportionately very rich in species.
Japan France & Belgium New York State
(142,741 sq. miles) (224,788 sq. miles) (49,576 sq. miles)
Inoue, 1956 Lhomme, 1923-35 Forbes in Leonard, 1928
Geometridae 639 550 265
Drepanidae 22 7 5
Thyatiridae 30 10 5
Callidulidae 2 0 0
Bombycidas 4 0 0
Eupterotidse 2 0 2
Lasiocampidse 18 23 6
Lymantriidae 44 17 15
Notodontidae 105 36 53
C. L. Remington
BESTIMMUNGSTABELLEN DER BLATTMINEN VON EUROPA EINSCHLIESSLICH DES MITTELMEERBECKENS UND DER KANARISCHEN INSELN. Vol. I: Pflan-zengattungen A-L; Erzeuger Nr. 1-3133: pp. (1)-648. Vol. II: Pflanzengattungen M-Z; Erzeuger Nr. 3134-5551: pp. (649)-1185. Vol. Ill: Neubeschreibungen von Minen-Erzeugern; Systematische Vbersicht der Wirtspflanzen und der Minen-Erzeuger; Ab-bildungen: 221 pp., 725 figs. By Erich M. Hering. 1957. Publisher: W. Junk, YGraven-hage. [Price for three volumes, bound, Dutch Guilders 194.00]
This important work is a new, revised, and much more comprehensive edition of Blattminen Mittel- und Nord-Europas einschliesslich Englands, published by the same author in 1935-1937. In its new appearance, the book gives keys to the leaf mines produced by insect larvae of all Europe, North Africa (the Canary Islands included), and Asia Minor, for the last two areas as completely as the leaf mines have there been studied.
Volume I consists of a preface, explanation of the abbreviations used in the book, and the keys to the leaf mines on the plant genera from A to L. In Volume II the author gives keys to the remaining leaf mines, some corrections and additions to both volumes, and two indices, one for German colloquial names of plants, the other for the mine producers mentioned in the book. Volume III includes a taxonomical supplement with descriptions of 15 new Diptera species and one new Lepidoptera species (Gnori-moschema philolycii; Andalusia), systematic lists of the genera of the host plants and the mine producers, and illustrations to the whole work. These latter are instructive line drawings representing leaf mines and some morphological details of the insect larvae, the larval bags of many Microlepidoptera (Coleophoridse, Psychidae) included.
The keys are compiled in a handy form and with accuracy very typical of their author, the leading world specialist upon leaf miners. Every one of the plant genera (they are arranged alphabetically) has a separate key based upon the characters of injuries and the morphology of the mine producers. As is evident from the table of