Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Superfamily Noctuidae found in Boreal America Translated from the first Swedish

Translated from the first Swedish edition of 1783

contemporary red marbled endpapers

many of which are illustrated

From La Naturaleza

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

Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Superfamily Noctuidae found in Boreal America Translated from the first SwedishPp. 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,