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We are
pleased to advise that Dr J D Holloway’s ‘The
Moths of
Work is well advanced on the penultimate part to be published, Part 13, to cover Noctuidae: Pantheinae (part), Bagisarinae, Aediinae, Eustrotiinae, Acontiinae etc., about 300 species.
The final
volume to be published in the series of 18 volumes will be volume 2, covering
the Zygaenidae. This volume will
also contain an index to the whole work, and references to more recent
publications on the fauna of
Costs are given below:
The Moths of
per copy (including surface mail overseas)
RM RM
RM
(p&p)
Part 1 50 15 65 22 15 29 (Reprint)
Part 3 60 15 75 30 20 40 (Reprint)
Part 4 40 15 55 22 15 29
Part 5 60 15 75 30 20 40
Part 6 40 15 55 22 15 29
Part 7 75 20 95 38 25 50
Part 8 60 15 75 30 20 40
Part 9 50 15 65 26 18 34
Part 10 60 15 75 30 20 40
Part 11 75 20 95 38 25 50
Part 12 40 15 55 22 15 29
Part 14 40 15 55 22 15 29
Parts 15&16 180 40 195 65 35 82
Part 17 100 20 120 35 20 43
Part 18 75 20 95 38 25 50
THE
MOTHS OF BORNEO
The current position is as follows:
Family
Spp. Plates
Part
Publication
Actual
No.
Date
(Est.)
Cossidae 34
Metarbelidae 5
Ratardidae 3
Dudgeoneidae 2 9 1 1986 R
Epipyropidae 1
Limacodidae 95
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Zygaenidae (40) 4 2
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Sphingidae 94
Bombycidae 15
Brahmaeidae 1
Saturniidae 22 20 3 1987 R
Eupterotidae 15
Lasiocampidae 62
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Notodontidae 123 9 4 1983
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Lymantriidae 297 12 5 1999
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Arctiidae:
Syntominae 55
Euchromiinae 2
Arctiinae 40
Noctuidae:
Aganainae 16 6 6 1988
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Arctiidae:
Lithosiinae 298 8 7 2001
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Castniidae 1
Callidulidae 7 6 8 1998
Drepanidae 108
Uraniidae 90
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THE
MOTHS OF BORNEO
The current position is as follows:
Family
Spp. Plates
Part
Publication
Actual
No.
Date
(Est.)
Geometridae:
Oenochrominae 6
Desmobathrinae 45
Geometrinae 218
Orthostixinae 2 12 9 1996
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Sterrhinae 176
Larentiinae 199 12 10 1997
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Ennominae 433 19 11 1993[4]
Noctuidae:
Noctuinae 11
Heliothinae 2
Hadeninae 32
Amphipyrinae 121
Acronictinae 7
Agaristinae 14 8 12 1989
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Pantheinae (part)
Bagisarinae
Aediinae (300) 10 13 2009 Est.
Eustrotiinae
Acontiinae etc.
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Euteliinae 73
Stictopterinae 89
Plusiinae 15
Pantheinae 3 8 14 1985
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Ophiderinae 591 28 15 & 16 2005
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Rivulinae 15
Phytometrinae 1
Herminiinae 227
Hypeninae 80
Hypenodinae 17 9 17 2008
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Nolidae 393 10 18 2003
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Total 5246
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Summary
Borneo species covered so far 5,246
Estimated number of Borneo species in
groups not yet covered 340
Total actual & estimated species in all the
above families occurring in
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If you wish to receive details of additional parts to be published in this series, please contact:
Southdene Sdn. Bhd.
P O Box 10139
50704 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Phone: +603 40222653 Fax: +603 40222267 E-mail: hsbar@pc.jaring.my
or : hsbar@hotmail.com
All parts published todate, except Part 17 can be viewed online at www.mothsofborneo.com
The Thyridids and Pyralids of Borneo
It is proposed to publish this work in 2 volumes, authored jointly by Dr T.M. Whitaker, Dr S. Sutton and H.S. Barlow.
The first volume will cover the Thyrididae only and is in an advanced stage of preparation, covering about 275 species from Borneo and the surrounding region.
The second volume will cover the Pyraloidea, about 3,000 species, and will be published in 2 parts, one containing text only, the other containing only the colour plates.
In both volumes, no attempt will be made to introduce nomenclatural changes, in the absence of adequate revisional work on the taxa concerned. The text will therefore be greatly abbreviated compared to Holloway’s The Moths of Borneo series, drawing attention to external markings, previous records of the species and known distribution. The volumes, with colour plates of all species will thus form as uptodate a catalogue as is at present possible for these groups, drawing attention to potential species complexes and areas most in need of taxonomic revision. Subject to the differences mentioned above, the format and layout will follow Holloway’s The Moths of Borneo series.
BOOKLIST
Mealybugs
of
The
UP Saga by Susan Martin. 2004.
The History of United Plantations, pb. 356 pp. RM40 + RM10 within
We also have in stock the following:
Hostplants of the moth and butterfly caterpillars of the Oriental Region by Gaden S Robinson, Philip R Ackery, Ian J Kitching, George W Beccaloni and Luis M Hernandez. Hardcover, 744 pp. 2001. RM165 + RM25 p & p = RM190, US$55, £35, A$96. Non Malaysian prices inclusive of surface mail, unregistered and very slow.
An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia by Frances & John Murphy, over 600 pp. 32 col. pl., 8 superb photos per plate, numerous outstanding new line drawings by M. Roberts, and other line drawings reproduced from earlier, hard to locate periodicals. Hb.
Per copy including p & p within Malaysia/Singapore RM100
Per copy including p & p overseas (surface mail) RM152
US$40
£28
A$75
Paul
D Brock Stick
and Leaf-Insects of Peninsular Malaysia &
Corbet & Pendlebury The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula, 4th ed. revised by J.N. Eliot, 1992 595 pp. 63 col. pl., 6 b&w: RM110 +30 = RM140, US$56, £35, A$73.
A Field Guide to the Smaller Moths of South East Asia by G. Robinson, M. Shaffer & K. Tuck, 246 pp., 32 col. pl., 1994. RM65 + 10 = RM75, US$30, £18.50, A$43.
Macmillan’s Tropical Planting and Gardening, revised edition by H.S. Barlow, R. Russell & I. Enoch, 1991, 767 pp, many b & w photos. RM95 + 25 = RM120, US$48, £30, A$63.
Swettenham by H.S. Barlow, 783 pp., 64 pp. b & w plates, 1995. RM120 + 20 = RM140, US$56, £35, A$74.
An Introduction to the Moths of South East Asia by H.S. Barlow, with taxonomic appendix by Dr J D Holloway, 305 pp., 50 col. pl. 1982. RM70 + 20 = RM90, US$36, £22, A$47.
Lim Chong Keat & Barlow, H.S., Frank
Swettenham and George Giles: Watercolours and Sketches of
Remittances in £, US$ payable to H.S. Barlow. In all cases forward to the above address. Books will be sent only on receipt of remittance. We only accept payment from overseas in £, US$ or A$. Please contact us if you wish to pay in Euros. Please contact us if you wish to pay in Euros or A$. We regret we cannot accept credit cards.
Prices are subject to change without notice, and books are sent surface mail at buyers risk. We will however do our best to follow up any which fail to arrive.
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FNHM Newsletter
– September 2006
Views expressed in this Newsletter should not be taken to reflect those of the Trustees or the Directorate of the Natural History Museum.
Thursday, 18 January 2007. Dr. T.J. Lambshead will speak on taxonomy of deep sea organisms.
Wednesday,
23 May 2007. AGM to be
held in NHM,
November 2006 to 29 April 2007. Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition. There will be a review in the next issue.
DARWIN CENTRE PHASE 2
Work continues on the construction of the Darwin Centre Phase 2 (DC2). It is sad to report that one building unfit for purpose (for health and safety reasons) is being replaced by another that is probably equally unfit for purpose but in other ways, certainly in terms of a significant shortfall in storage space available for the collections and in suitable office space for the dedicated staff that care for them. For the office space, there is a particularly serious defect with regard to the effectiveness with which biosystematics, essentially collections-based, can be undertaken. In the old building, the various functions of this activity, including access to various additional resources such as key literature, were closely located. In the new, these will become widely dispersed, far more than is necessary for improving the protection of the collections and more than was originally promised. Other health and safety aspects may arise, such as the need for good, preferably natural, illumination in what is an intensely optical science. This will be particularly serious for staff working in the two floors set aside for public viewing of routine work of the Departments concerned.
There is no sign that staff suggestions on these subjects were listened to and incorporated at the planning stage, though a consultancy firm was brought in to assess the ways in which research on the collections was undertaken in the old building in order to ensure that efficient methods of working that had evolved over decades would be translated as far as possible into the new. Working space for the current staff complement available in the new building falls well short of that recommended in the report arising from this exercise, perhaps sacrificed in part for ‘state-of-the-art’ laboratories that nevertheless do not fulfil the requirements outlined above and are not essential for much of the basic biosystematic spadework that is urgently needed.
Where did all this go wrong? The NHM, which a few years ago adopted an admirable policy of disclosure and accountability in publishing, within one month, the Minutes of the Board of Trustees’ meetings, has now retreated again into disclosure on the NHM website after a two year delay. So it is hard to be entirely certain. However there appear to be three areas inviting the spotlight of accountability:
1. Very senior figures in NHM were determined that a Darwin Centre Phase 2 should follow DC1 with a degree of haste which is in retrospect regrettable. Health and safety problems, which were used to justify the precipitate demolition of the old Entomology Building, were in certain respects valid. However, through the life of the old building, they had not changed in character (though H & S regulations might have done) to an extent which justified the ill-considered haste which ensued, and many could have been remedied during this period by improved storage of specimen drawers to minimise fire risks and potential pest access, avoiding the necessity of chemical remedy.
2. The Trustees singularly failed to scrutinise effectively management proposals for DC2. Had they done so, they might have picked up the discrepancy between storage space required as originally specified to architects in 2001, and the lesser amount implicit in the cocoon design when originally presented. This discrepancy was later obscured, either through lack of attention to detail or deliberately by the Directorate in the ‘fit-for-purpose’ note submitted to the Trustees in 2004.
3. The NHM management may well have wilfully misled the Trustees over the discrepancy noted in 2 above; certainly they would appear to have been negligent in not declaring a space shortfall at this stage, when it was probably already evident. They seem also to have behaved discreditably much earlier over the competition to choose the architects; it was for this that the detailed measurements of 2001 were prepared. At this stage, many involved in the planning, particularly the scientists, were led to believe that the designs submitted were far from final, and there was ample room for modification and flexibility (or even a total rethink) within cost constraints to ensure the design finally adopted was indeed fit-for-purpose. The Keepers concerned assumed that, once the architects were selected, they would be able to discuss with them certain key points in the original design; indeed, at an early stage, they were told that they, in particular, were ‘the customers’, having the best knowledge of how their Departments worked effectively. But, as the defects of the design became more evident and voiced, the Keepers were peremptorily told that the design was final, their remonstrations were ignored, and they were excluded from the decision process thereafter.
In this day and age it is no longer customary for anyone to take responsibility for flawed decisions and actions (though the ENRON debacle may be salutary in this respect): indeed several of the major players have already left the NHM, having largely painted their successors into a corner. But there is no harm in pointing out such errors. Those responsible may at least wriggle uneasily for a moment or two, as well they should when they contemplate a new building costing upwards of £70 million, not fit for purpose, in which, at best, UK taxonomy and systematics will struggle to retain pre-eminence and offer leadership. All this presupposes that cost can be kept within budget, and that adequate funds are in fact available to complete the building as currently planned.
Throughout this whole process, the scientific staff at the Museum have done their best, despite deepening misgivings as the saga unfolded, to provide what information they were asked for to help the planning, including detailed measurement of the space occupied by the collections, and to comment critically but constructively at frequent meetings. Much of this comment concerned those aspects already mentioned, such as adequate space for the collections, preserving efficient working practices as far as possible in a new structure, particularly with regard to location of functions and access to resources, including the collections, and quality of illumination. Promises that were made to them have not been kept, such as over the need to avoid a ‘goldfish bowl’ situation where working was viewed by the public. Yet the design appears to have produced both a goldfish bowl and a fish tank in the very core of the cocoon. At one meeting a retired senior member of staff, who still devoted much time to voluntary work in the Museum, challenged the breaking of a promise of 10% for co