Includes notes on nomenclature, classification and conventions, terms and abbreviations, and a history of the scientific nomenclature of lepidoptera. The specific names are explained, together with the names of the genera, families and suborders to which they belong, giving Latin and Greek roots.

Volume 4 is undoubtedly one of the most needed volumes in the series, there being no other English language work available covering this group of moths, and it has already been acclaimed as one of the finest. Part 1 contains the special chapter, followed by the Systematic accounts of the Oecophoridae and eight smaller families - a total of 147 species. Part 2 comprises the Gelechiidae - 162 species. There are genitalia drawings for both sexes of each species, and also representative figures of wing venation for each family, as well as other diagnostic characters. Appropriately, this volume...