XVill LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



myself right with my brother Entomologists, as to the extent 

 of my share in the production of the seven volumes on 

 Entomology forming a portion of " The Naturalist's Library, 

 by Sir William Jardine," namely : — 



"Introduction to Entomology, vol. i., by James Duncan, 

 M.W.S.," 1840. 



"Entomology, vol. ii., Beetles, by James Duncan, M.W.S,," 



"Entomology, vol. iii., British Butterflies, by James Duncan, 

 M.W.S.," 1835. 



^'Entomology, vol. iv., British Moths, Sphinxes, &c., by 

 James Duncan, M.W.S.," 1836. 



"Entomology, vol. v.. Foreign Butterflies, by James Duncan, 

 M.W.S.," 1837. 



" Entomology, vol. vi.. Bees," 1840. 



" Entomology, vol, vii.. Exotic Moths, by James Duncan, 

 M.W.S.," 1841. 



I may say, at starting, that of volumes ii., iii., iv., and v., I 

 know no more of their authorship than is given on their 

 respective title-pages as above, and that I had no personal 

 acquaintance with Mr. Duncan, never having, to my knowledge, 

 even seen him, and certainly he never saw one of the insects, 

 which were published for the first time in the Naturalist's 

 Library from my drawings. With the view of giving to some 

 portion of the other entomological volumes an amount of 

 originality which was wanting in the majority of the volumes of 

 the work, I was applied to in the years 1840 and 1841 to 

 furnish drawings of new and beautiful species of insects for the 

 Introductory Volume, the volume on Exotic Moths, and some 

 exotic bees for the volume on " Honey and other Bees." 



These additional species were selected by myself from the 

 collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope and my own, and the 

 drawings, with a popular description of each species (not, how- 



