| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1958 |
| Authors: | D. S. Fletcher |
| Journal: | The Natural History of Rennell Island, British Solomon IslandsThe Natural History of Rennell Island, British Solomon Islands |
| Volume: | 3(15) |
| Pagination: | 31-66, pls. |
| Keywords: | arctiidae, Cossidae, description, distribution, Geometridae, LEPIDOPTERA, Lymantriidae, Noctuidae, Noctuoidea, Pacific Insects, Psychidae, Solomon Islands, Sphingidae, Syntomidae, Uraniidae |
| Abstract: | The material on which this paper is based is solely that collected by Mr and Mrs JD Bradley during a six weeks visit to Rennell and Bellona Islands in October to November 1953. The collection from the two islands consists of 388 specimens representing 87 species, 18 of which were found to be new to science and all but 3 of these, which are placed only to genera because of insufficient or imperfect material, are described in the following pages together with 10 new races of known species. The collection from Rennell consists of 351 specimens representing 83 species. That from Bellona consists of 37 specimens representing 12 species, 8 of which were also collected on Rennell; a further 3 are recorded from other islands in the Solomons and may occur also on Rennell and 1, Euchromia shortlandica niphosticha Fletcher, is a distinct race of a species so far recorded from Shortland, Bougainville and Guadalcanal Islands. |