Author: Hsiao, T. Y. et al.
Title: A handbook for the determination of the Chinese Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Volume II.
Description: Beijing, Science Press, 1981. 8vo (26.0 x 18.7 cm). iv, 654 pp.; 1724 text illustrations, 85 plates with another 841 individual illustrations. Publisher's green, printed wrappers. = A massive, well-illustrated and taxonomically important monograph. Co-authored by specialists in several families, namely S. Z. Ren, L. Y. Zheng, H. L. Jing, H. G. Zou and S. L. Liu. Well-illustrated. This volume deals with Lygaeidae, Piesmidae, Pyrrhocoridae, Aradidae, Tingidae, Enicocephalidae, Phymatidae, Reduviidae and Nabidae. It includes 968 species, of which 59 new, one new subspecies, one new genus, and nine genus changes. In Chinese with index of Latin names, and English summary of 35 pp., including the descriptions of new taxa. A very good, clean copy.

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