O. Merkl szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 67. (Budapest, 2006)

The Fauna of the Aggtelek National Park VOLUMES I-II edited by S. M A HUNK A and L. ZOMBORl The tenth and eleventh parts of the series "Natural History of the National Parks of Hungary" comprise a collection of papers written by fifty-nine Hungarian and foreign experts. The best part of the material presented in the two volumes was collected during a four-year research programme (1987-1990) organized by the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. A small share that accumulated in earlier years, prior to 1987, was also considered and incorporated. The first volume opens with a Preface, written by the Gábor Salamon, director the Aggtelek National Park, followed by an Introduction of the senior editor pondering over the 25th anniversary of our national park researches, and giving a detailed list of all the administrative locality names large and small, together with a map of the territory. Then a biogeographical outline of the invertebrate fauna is given. The volume proper is divided into three serions: Platyhelminthes, Annelida and Arthropoda. The largest section, as it has always been, the last one of the three has important scientific elaborations of the following orders or higher groups: Cladocera and Copepoda (2 pp), Collembola (11 pp), Odonata (22 pp), orthopteroids (21 pp), Psocoptera (5 pp), Thysanoptera (9 pp), Heteroptera (8 pp), Homoptera (9 pp), Neuropteroidea (7 pp), Coleoptera (177 pp). The book closes with two indexes, one is to authors, the other to species names. The second volume is a direct continuation of the first one, well reflected also by the page numbers. Here the Arthropoda is continued with Trichoptera (11 pp), Microlepidoptera (48 pp), Macrolepidoptera (61 pp), Diptera (43 pp), Hymenoptera (61 pp), Araneae (9 pp) and Acari (32 pp). The final, large section is the Vertebrate comprising two papers on amphibians and reptiles (8 pp) and the avifauna (21 pp). Again the volume closes with the author index and a cumulative species index. The volumes were published by the Hungarian Natural History Museum in 1999. ISBN 963 05 2518 6 (Series) ISBN 963 7093 64 8 (Vol. 1) ISBN 963 7093 63 x (Vol. II) Soft bound, 775 pages with some figures Price: 100 US dollars including package and postage Orders should be sent to the Library of the Hungarian Natural History Museum H-1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13, Hungary Fax: (36-1) 3172320, E-mail: angela@libr.nhmus.hu