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MOVE PLANNED FOR external visitors as early as January 2005 and until its move into temporary facilities is COLLECTION complete. As you might imagine, these AT THE NATURAL HISTORY preparations are placing an enormous extra MUSEUM, LONDON burden upon our staff. During the period of the decant (until approximately 1 September 2005) If you live in a cave and have not heard, we cannot guarantee access to or loans of the Lepidoptera Collection at The Natural specific parts of the collection. That said, we History Museum will soon be moved to are making every effort to minimise the impact temporary quarters. Here are details that were of the move on your work, as well as our own included in an e-mail from Quentin Wheeler. research, curation and education programmes. “The Department of Entomology at the We will attempt to honour as many requests for Natural History Museum, London, is in the loans, information and visits as we can, but this planning stages of its largest move in more than may not be possible in every case or on specific half a century. The present Entomology dates. You should plan your research and travel building will be razed to make way for the accordingly and co-ordinate your arrangements landmark Darwin Centre II on the same site, with a member of our staff. It may also be scheduled for completion in 2008. The new difficult during the actual move for staff to building will house the Entomology collections answer questions that require access to the and portions of the Herbarium in vastly collections or library; this may lead to improved environmental conditions. There will significant delays. also be state-of-the-art research and public We anticipate that a timetable for the access spaces. We are currently in the midst of “decant” will be in place by January 2005, a six-month planning process to ensure that the detailing the sequence of removal of collections current Entomology building is vacated no later and programmes and their arrival in temporary than September 2005. housing at several locations in London. Although the collections “decant” will Temporary housing for the collections is being probably not commence until about March designed to permit as full access as possible. 2005, preparations for the removal are already However, until a timetable as been adopted, it is well under way and portions of the move may impossible to say with certainty when particular happen sooner. The Entomology library may taxa will be unavailable. begin its move and become inaccessible to

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We apologise for any inconvenience and PROGRESS ON AFRICAN ask for your forbearance and co-operation as we OLETHREUTINAE BY AARVIK undertake this historic move. With 28,000,000 specimens, one of the largest libraries in the The tortricid fauna of tropical Africa is world, and about 130 staff members, you will undoubtedly the most poorly known of any appreciate the challenge we are facing.” major biogeographic realm. Although the work Thanks to Kevin Tuck for forwarding of Diakonoff (1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1973, this message to us. 1981, etc.) represents a useful generic ______framework for many species based on the fauna of Madagascar, it provides only a glimpse into TORTRICID CATALOG the real diversity of the African continent. Many FINALLY AT THE PRINTER African species still reside in the genera in which Meyrick and others described them The catalog of the Tortricidae - World nearly a century ago, and many species Catalogue of , Volume 5 - is finally at remained to be described. the printer! It should be available from Apollo Heppner (1991) estimated that were 250 Books by about the first of March 2005. The described species of tortricids in the Afro- catalog treats over 9,100 valid species and over tropical region, but the number is probably 15,000 names; it is 741 pages in length. The closer to 500 if the fauna of Madagascar is price is DKK 960,00 or about $175 US. It can included. Most other major biogeographic be order at “[email protected]”. realms support about 1,000 species of tortricids, The catalog is intended to be complete through and there is no reason to believe that the 2004, although there undoubtedly will be some Afrotropical fauna will not be comparable. omissions - near the end, the cut-off point for In recent years, Leif Aarvik has focused the inclusion of new information became a his efforts toward this region, and these efforts moving target. are beginning to pay off in a big way. In two The catalog eventually will be made papers published in 2004, Aarvik (2004a, b) available via the web - probably several years in described 7 new genera and 19 new species, and the future. Hence, we solicit corrections and proposed several new synonymies and new comments for its improvement. If you find combinations. The second of the two papers, errors in citations or spelling, or know the treating the subtribe Neopotamiae, is an whereabouts of types that we have overlooked, impressive revision, over 50 pages in length, we would appreciate receiving that information. with excellent photographs of male and female We hope the catalog will provide a firm genitalia and superb, large color drawings of the foundation for future systematic work on adults skillfully prepared by Nini Cecilie Tortricidae. And I hope that this is the first of Aarvik. many projects on the family in which we can It is encouraging to see progress on this successfully enlist collaborators from the fauna, and we can only hope that Leif continues tortricid community throughout the world. to focus on this incredibly diverse and poorly known region.

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Literature Cited INSIGHT INTO WALKER GENERIC NAMES Aarvik, L. 2004a. A new genus and species of Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) from Africa. The following is a letter to Gaden Norwegian Journal of Entomology 51: Robinson (BMNH) from Robert Horae. 67-70. “I have just stumbled on something I Aarvik, L. 2004b. Revision of the subtribe thought you (and others at the BM) might Neopotamiae (Lepidopera: Tortricidae) appreciate, though perhaps you know it already in Africa. Norwegian Journal of Ento- (in which case, apologies). Having always mology 51: 71-122. assumed that Walker’s generic names were by Diakonoff, A. 1959. Meyrick's types of Tor- and large complete invented nonsense (as I tricidae from Madagascar in the Vienna believe Meyrick complained), I chanced on the Museum. Annalen des Naturhistor- fact that Izatha (, New Zeland) is ischen Museums in Wien 63: 409-413. an obsolete place name used by Ptolemy on his Diakonoff, A. 1960. Tortricidae from ancient map of the world. It took a while to find Madagascar. Part 1. Tortricinae and a web-site that showed the location of Izatha, Chlidanotinae. Verhandelingen der and it turns out to be North Africa. I was Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie delighted to see that amongst other localities in van Wetenschappen, afd. Natuurkunde the vicinity we have the following: Celama, 53 (2): 1-209. Garra, Thisizima, Thudaca, Ladbia, Chezala, Diakonoff, A. 1961. Tortricidae from Bida, Zaratha, Casmara, Binsitta, and Tenissa Madagascar in the Berlin Museum. (=Tinissa?). I presume there are other Walker Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift names elsewhere on the map, in other parts of (N.S.) 8: 152-155. the world. See Ptolemy’s map of Libya at http: Diakonoff, A. 1963. Tortricidae (Lepid.) //penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/ collected in Madagascar by Dr. Fred Periods/Roman/_Texts/Ptolemy/4/2*.htm#Im Keiser. Verhandlungen der Natur- ageMapLocation.” forschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 74: Thanks to Kevin Tuck for sharing this 133-144. letter with us. Diakonoff, A. 1973. Tortricidae of the ______Andringitra Range, Central Madagascar (Lepidoptera). Part 1. Tortricinae. Bull- etin du Muséum National d’Histoire TORTS NEWSLETTER TO BE Naturelle (108), Zoologie 82: 105-143. DISTRIBUTED AS PDF Diakonoff, A. 1981. Tortricidae from Madagascar, Part 2. Olethreutinae, 1. Starting in July 2005, I hope to Ann. Soc. Entomol. France (N.S.) 17 distribute the newsletter electronically as a (1): 7-32. PDF. Hence, please make sure I have a correct Heppner, J. B. 1991. Faunal regions and the e-mail address for you. I also hope we can diversity of Lepidoptera. Tropical distribute PDFs of recently published articles on Lepidoptera 2 (supplement 1): 1-85. Tortricidae in this manner. Thanks much.

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