AUTHOR'S PREFACE. 



In issuing tins first volume upon the Lamellicorn beetles of 

 India it is a pleasure to acknowledge my great indebtedness 

 to the many iustitutions and individuals who have given 

 generous assistance by allowing the use of types and other 

 specimens, without which the work would have had little 

 value. Type specimens have been lent to me by the 

 Museums of Paris, Berlin (National Entomological Museum), 

 Vienna, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Ziirich, Oxford, and 

 Calcutta, and for these my thanks are due to M. Pierre 

 Lesne, Herr Sigmund Schenkling, Dr. Ludwig Ganglbauer, 

 Dr. Adam Boving, Prof. Yngve Sjostedt, Herr Hans 

 Wagner, Prof. E. B. Poulton, and Dr. Nelson Annandale. 



I must also render grateful thanks to Mr, O. E. Janson 

 for the loan of many types from his splendid collection and 

 for affording me the advantage of his special knowledge of the 

 Cetoniinae ; to M. Rene Oberthiir for putting at my disposal 

 the resources of his museum ; to Herr Sternberg, who has 

 generously presented to me for the British Museum the types 

 of Indian Dynastinse in his collection ; and to Capt. Moser 

 for kindly sending me for examination types in his possession. 

 Mr. H. E. Andre wes has given invaluable assistance both 

 from his own collection and by his unflagging efforts to 

 stimulate field-work in India ; and Messrs. H. L. Andrewes, 

 H. Maxwell Lefroy, E. E. Green, and Capt. A. H. Weld 

 Downing have made important contributions of specimens 



