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Indian Insect Life, A Manual of the Insects of the Plains (Tropical India)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

H. Maxwell-Lefroy  and
F. M. Howlett
H. Maxwell-Lefroy
Affiliation:
W. Thacker & Co., London, 1909 (Price 30s.).
F. M. Howlett
Affiliation:
W. Thacker & Co., London, 1909 (Price 30s.).
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To those who for the first time visit a tropical country nothing is more striking than the extraordinary profusion of insect life. Some by their abundance, others by their bizarre form, others again by the brilliance of their colouring or through some suggestive vague resemblance to familiar northern forms, stimulate curiosity and excite a longing to learn more of their strange lives. This need the authours have attempted to satisfy in so far as it can be done within the limits of a single volume. Such a work must of course be sketchy, and probably no one realises this better that the authors themselves. Insects are already responsible for 14 volumes of the Fauna of British India and the tale is yet to run.

Type
Review Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , September 1910 , pp. 333 - 334
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1910

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