PEEFACE. 



When the author left England, in the autumn of 1892, 

 for a winter's sunshine in Teneriffe, it was by no means 

 her intention to write on the Lepidoptera of that Island. 

 Soon after her arrival, however, she was struck by two 

 things ; the want of any sort of interesting out-door 

 occupation (other than somewhat desultory riding ex- 

 peditions) experienced by her companions in exile, and 

 the absence of any account of the Lepidoptera of the 

 Canary Islands, which wo aid enable collectors to name 

 their specimens. It is her hope that the present pub- 

 lication may be, at least to some extent, the means of 

 remedying these deficiences. 



To a detailed description of the Lepidoptera of Tene- 

 riffe, so far as they are at present known, an introductory 



