Excerpt from Genera Insectorum: Fasicules 176-180
Coleoptera, Pam. Cerambycide, Subfam. Disteniine Lepturine, par P. Boffe. Lepidoptera Heterocera, Pam. Carposinide, par E. Meyrick.
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