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

From La Naturaleza

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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,