3 v., [21] leaves of plates in various foliations : col. ill. ; 32 cm
Type:
Electronic resources
Place:
Central America
Mexico
Date:
1886
1903
1886-1903
Notes:
Publication information from NUC pre-56, v. 58, p. 227.
"Printed by Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street"--Colophon.
Issued in parts.
Cover title: Biologia Centrali-Americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. Ed. by F. Du Cane Godman and Osbert Salvin.
August 1898-1903, edited by F. Du Cane Godman.
Vol. 1 (1886-1901) by Baron C. Osten Sacken, the supplement by Professor S.W. Williston, Professor J.M. Aldrich, and Professor W.M. Wheeler, and A.L. Melander; v. 2 (1888-1903) by Frederick Maurits van der Wulp; v. 3 (1891-1903) by Professor S.W. Williston.
Collation of each v.: v. 1 [=v. 43 of the BCA]: viii, 378 p., 6 leaves of plates; v. 2 [=v. 44 of the BCA]: ix, [1], 489, [1] p., 13 leaves of plates; v. 3 [=v. 45 of the BCA]: [7], 127 p., 2 leaves of plates.
The plates were illustrated by Van der Wulp and J.E. Collin, and printed by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company; Edwin Wilson, Cambridge; and Cambridge Engraving Co.
Also available online.
SCNHRB copy (v. 1, 39088010896843; v. 2, 39088010899995; v. 3, 39088010896496) has p. 361-368 of v. 1 misbound between p. 352 and 353 of the same volume.
SCNHRB copy has a stamp on front free endpaper of v. 1: A.L. Melander from the library of J.M. Aldrich, with J.M. Aldrich's autograph; a ms. letter ([2] p.), from C.R. Osten-Sacken to J.M. Aldrich concerning an exchange of articles and photographic portraits, is inserted between the front free endpaper and the t.p. of v. 1; one typed p. of notes on Degeeria and Vibrissina is inserted between p. 150 and 151 of v. 2; stamp on t.p.'s: Smithsonian Library Jul. 31, 1961.
SCNHRB copy (v. 1-3) has a later brown buckram library binding with gilt-lettered spine; with Heckman Bindery label on back paste-down endpapers.
Elecresource
Contents:
v. 1. Cecidomyiidæ. Mycetophilidæ. Bibionidæ. Simuliidæ. Blepharoceridæ. Culicidæ. Chironomidæ. Psychodidæ. Tipulidæ. Rhyphidæ. Stratiomyidæ. Tabanidæ. Chiromyzidæ. Leptidæ. Xylophagidæ. Acanthomeriidæ. Mydaidæ. Nemestrinidæ. Bombyliidæ. Therevidæ. Cyrtidæ. Asilidæ. Dolichopodidæ. Empidæ -- v. 2. Œstridæ. Muscidæ. Pupipara.--Hippoboscidæ. Supplement to the Muscidæ Calypteræ. List of species of "Muscidæ Calypteræ" and "Muscidæ Acalypteræ" described by other authors since the commencement of the publication of this volume, in 1888, and not noticed by Van der Wulp. List of genera characterized by other authors for species described in this volume -- v. 3. Syrphidæ. Conopidæ. Pipunculidæ. Platypezidæ. List of species of Syrphidæ and Conopidæ described by other authors since the publication of Prof. Williston's work, concluded in May 1892
