The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma, Vol. 1: Published Under the Authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council; Moths (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

G. F. Hampson

9780266630944: The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma, Vol. 1: Published Under the Authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council; Moths (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma, Vol. 1: Published Under the Authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council; Moths

The material available for study has been almost complete as far as it exists, and the descriptions have been drawn up and the synonymy worked out, in the large majority of cases, from the types of the species, so that it is hoped that com paratively few errors will have crept in. No pains have been spared to compare as large a series of each species as was possible, and as most of the species were originally described from single specimens by their authors, who did not always make sufficient allowance for the variation that is known to exist amongst the Moths of Europe and other countries where they have been largely bred, the synonymy has been lengthy and difficult to unravel and though some may think that more has been done in uniting species than will be justified by a future study of the subject, yet as the individual peculiarities of each form have been indicated this will but help to show their affinities.

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