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published, and I have here employed the generic names used 

 in it, adding in brackets those of the earlier * Catalog ' when these 

 are different. In dealing with Staudinger's huge and unwieldy 

 genera of A gratis, Hadena, and Mamestra I have employed the 

 generic divisions and names adopted in the ' Synonymic List of 

 British Lepidoptera,' and commonly in use among British ento- 

 mologists. The specific names adopted are those of Dr. Stau- 

 dinger's ' Catalog,' 1901, and the synonyms used by Guenee, 

 Hiibner, Barrett, South, Kirby, and Newman have also been 

 given. 



The preparation of the Catalogue in this form would have been 

 altogether impossible but for two things : — (i) The existence of a 

 carefully-recorded diary, in which Mr. Dobree entered the source 

 of each specimen in his collection ; and (2) The publication of 

 Mr. J. W. Tutt's 'British Noctuge and their Varieties,' to which 

 book I owe more than can be easily expressed. 



For defraying the cost of publication of the Catalogue, and 

 for the interest taken in its' preparation, I have to record my 

 thanks to the Museums Committee of the Hull Corporation. 

 To Major de S. Dobree I am indebted for the loan of such of his 

 father's annotated books as I required, and to Mr. Thomas 

 Sheppard, F.G.S., for exceptional privileges of access to the 

 collection under his charge, as well as for clerical assistance in 

 the initial stages of the work. 



Lastly, I wish to express a student's thanks to Mr. William 

 Lawton, the Chief Librarian of the Hull Public Libraries, for his 

 unfailing readiness to bring before the Libraries Committee the 

 requests of students, and notably those of the members of the 

 Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club. 



HORACE B. BROWNE. 



Hull, 



October 1909. 



