POSTSCRIPT. 



In Newman's Grammar of Entomology, it is remarked, in page 287, that Haworth's 

 Lepidoptera Britannica contains " descriptions of the British Lepidoptera known 

 at the time the author wrote [1803 to 1828], and very few have been discovered 

 since." And in the following page, in speaking of these Illustrations, he states the work 

 " contains descriptions of all the known British Lepidoptera." It would therefore appear, 

 from the words which I have placed in italics, that but little exertion had been made of 

 late years towards the investigation of the species of our indigenous Lepidoptera ; but the 

 fact is, that exactly one-fourth of those described by me have been added ivithin these few 

 years ! and are not to be found in Haworth ; inasmuch as I have described 1887 species 

 (70 of which are in addition to my Catalogue, notwithstanding several therein given as 

 species are reduced,) and Haworth only 141G, after abating those twice entered, thereby 

 makhig an addition of 471 species. 



1 may here take occasion to add, in allusion to the note in p, 380, and the paragraph 

 to which it is attached, that I entirely repudiate any participation in the nomenclature of 

 the insects figured in the work referred to, except that I have occasionally introduced some 

 English names where they were deficient, — but that I have merely lent the insects therein 

 figured, so far as I possess them, and that, from occasional transpositions having been 

 made in the boxes, their nomenclature has been subsequently defective. I do not, however, 

 pretend to say that only those I have referred to are transposed, as I had not leisure 

 to "o through all the figures. I may conclude by adding that the 9 of Aspilates gilvaria 

 appears to have been figured for Pelonia vibicaria, in pi. 20, f. 5391, published on the 

 31st January last. 



