Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Diversity and Distribution of the California Structure and Classification Systematic Treatment Learning More About Insects Glossary Abbreviations Index

About the Author

Jerry A. Powell is Professor of the Graduate School and Director of The Essig Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written extensively on Lepidoptera and devotes about 75 days each year to field research. Charles L. Hogue was Senior Curator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angles County. He wrote numerous popular and technical papers, mainly on Diptera, as well as several general books on insects. He died in 1992.