Hampson's British Museum Plates of Noctuids

[Joseph G. Kunkel]

Dear Lepidopterists and particularly Noctuid lovers:
I am in the middle of a project to make the Hampson illustrations of
Noctuids available as digital images.  This includes availability of low
resolution JPEGS 480x~800 of the entire plates on the WWW within a frame
with an index of names and Hodges modern designations for the North
American species.
A start has been made on five of Hampson's Books of Plates, Vols. IV,
VI, VIII, IX, XII:
http://snapper.bio.umass.edu/kunkel/Moths/hampson.html

My appologies beforehand to those individuals who do not have fast
modems or WWW browsers.  I will make the entire set of low-res images
available on CD for a reasonable price and the higher resolution images
for professionals at a suitably higher price.

I am looking for collaborators or advisors who are knowledgeable of the
Asian, African, Australian, Mexican and other noctuid material that is
covered by Hampson to provide modern ammendments to the 1903-1915
species names. Are there regional revised check lists of the Noctuids
for your group or local? Please approach me on this.
Cheers,
Joe
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Joe Kunkel, Professor
Biology Department, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
joe at bio.umass.edu  http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/kunkel/