Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Superfamily Noctuidae found in Boreal America From La Naturaleza

From La Naturaleza

This unique artistic style was utilized in the production of the fine color plates illustrating her botanical works

she knew the horticultural books of the day were written in a technical and scientific style

This volume presents the results of American Museum of Natural History expeditions to Mongolia and China in the years 1922-1930-truly a landmark of exploration in the early 20th Century

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Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Superfamily Noctuidae found in Boreal America From La NaturalezaPp. 424. Early green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, 8vo. This is Bulletin of the United States National Museum, no. 44. The Noctuidae or owlet moths are a family of robustly built moths that includes more than 35,000 known species out of possibly 100,000 total, in more than 4,200 genera. Some species of the family are preyed upon by bats. However, many Noctuidae species have tiny organs in their ears that respond to bat echolocation calls,