AUTHOR'S PREFACE. 



In the Preface to the first volume of Lepidopiera I announced 

 my intention of completing the Butterflies in two volumes ; 

 but the amount of matter which I found it necessary to include 

 proved more considerable than I had expected, and the present 

 volume includes only Families II. to VI. of the Butterflies, viz., 

 Libytheid^y LetnoniidcBy Lyccenid^., FieridcE, and Equitidce ; the 

 Hesperiidce being left over till the third volume. 



As at present arranged, it is proposed to devote three 

 volumes to the remainder of the Lepidoptera, making five in 

 all, divided as follows : — 



Butterflies : Nymphalidae. 



Libytheidae to Equitida3. 



Hesperiidoe. 

 Pages, Burnets, Tiger-Moths, &c. 

 Hawk-Moths, Emperors, &:c. 

 Owl-Moths, Loopers, Clothes Moths, &c. 



The Family Eijuitidic (usually called Papi/iofiidcc), contain- 

 ing the true Swallow-Tailed Butterflies, is in a most chaotic 

 state, never having been sub-divided into genera like the 

 other Families. A thorough revision would have been be- 

 yond the scope of the present work ; but I have carefully 

 examined all the generic names which have been proposed 

 for any portions of this extensive Family, collated them with 



