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Mention must, however, be made of Felder's ^^ Reise 

 Novara " (1874). in which many new S. African species 

 are figured, but not described. Several other longer or 

 shorter pa])ers were published by Aurivillius, Maassen 

 and Weyuier, Westwood, Butler, Druce, Distant and 

 others, but no attempt w^as made to improve the classi- 

 fication of the group except in a few small families, and 

 these classifications are now out of date. 



The first Catalogue of S. African moths was started 

 by Sir George Hampson. Unfortunately his time was too 

 much occupied by the larger " Catalogue of the Lepi- 

 doptera Phalaena '' to do more than the Amatidae, Arcti- 

 adae, Koctuidae^ Lymantriadac, and Hypsidae, and all 

 of these families have been substantially supplemented 

 since the date of issue. In the above mentioned work a 

 large number of new species are described from this 

 country, and it is to be hoped, now the war is over, the 

 remaining volumes will soon be issued. 



A most excellent Revision and Monograph of the 

 ^phingidac was published by the Hon. W. Rothschild 

 and ])r. Jordan (1903), and several new species of S. 

 African hawk-moths are described. During the last eight 

 years a large number of new Geometridae have been de- 

 scribed by Mr. L. B. Prout, and it is trusted this dis- 

 tinguished worker will find the time to give a new classi- 

 fication of the species of this difficult group. 



Of the M icro-Lepidoptcra , Lord AA'alsingham described 

 a number of species (1881 and 1801), the types of which 

 are in the S. African ^luseum. Tlie majority of species 

 and genera of this group we owe to the famous specialist, 

 Mr. E. Meyrick, since 1908, when I had the privilege of 

 sending my first specimens to him. By the generosity 

 of tliis able worker ])ractically all the type material of 

 his S. African species is now in this country, and will 

 form the foundation of any further work done on the 

 grou]). AVhat we owe to the careful work of ^lessrs. 

 Meyrick, l*rout and Sir George Hampson will only be 

 fully appreciated, T think, by entomologists of a future 

 generation. 



