Survey of the Lepidoptera, Biogeograhy and Ecology of New Caledonia

I spent four months in New Caledonia in 1971 with the object of making a quantitative survey of the night-flying macrolepidoptera with light-traps and an assessment of the Rhopalocera and microlepidoptera. This fieldwork was financed by a Government Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Investigations adminis­ tered by the Royal Society, and by a grant from the Godman Fund. I devoted a further three weeks t...