INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS 



TO VOL. IV. OF 



LLO YD'S NA 7 UR A L HIS TO R V 



(LEPIDOPFERA). 



No. I. 



On the Attthorship of tJie Letterpress of Volumes 

 /., VI. ^ and VII. of the Entomology in 

 '' J ardine^ s Naturalist's Library I* 



[Some uncertainty existing in respect to Professor Westwood's 

 share in the authorship of the volumes on Entomology in 

 "Jardine's Naturalist's Library," Mr. Stainton wrote to Professor 

 Westwood on the subject, and received in reply the following 

 letter, w^iich was published in the " Entomologists' Monthly 

 Magazine" for January, 1886 (vol. xxi. pp. 1S2-186). This 

 letter is here reprinted in its entirety, by the kind permission 

 of the present editors of the Magazine, but it has not been 

 thought necessary to reprint the observations prefixed to it by 

 Mr. Stainton {op. cit. pp. 181, 182), as they are merely explan- 

 atory of the circumstances which led him to entjuire into the 

 matter.] 



Walton Manor, Oxford, 



December \st, 1SS4. 



Your enquiry concerning my Scopelodes u?iicolor affords me 

 an opportunity, of which I am glad to avail myself, of setting 



