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On some new Lepidoptera discovered by A. S. Meek in British New Guinea

1905; Natural History Museum at Tring; Volume: 12; Linguagem: Inglês

10.5962/bhl.part.24275

0950-7655

Lionel Walter Rothschild Rothschild, Karl Jordan,

Socioeconomics of Resources and Conservation

HEN describing in Aoc. Zool. xi. p. 31i) (1904) some remarkable Lepitlupterii, obtained b)' A. S. Meek at Owgarra, sitnated at a high altitude north ot the head of the Aroa River, we mentioned that the outbreak of measles had compelled the collector to return at once to the coast with his men.The few hundred specimens found during two or three days' collecting, among which were the wonderful new Troides cliimciera and a number of new Delias, new T.ycaenidae,