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courtesy of Messrs. Blackie and Son, Stanhope Street, 

 Glasgow, whicli are mainly from the pencil of the well-known 

 John Curtis, will be found at pp. 3, 5, 11, 14, IG, 18, 23, 24, 

 25, 29, 31, 35, 39, 45, 48, 55, 62, 65, 73, 76, 90, 94, 97, 110, 

 126, 130, 133, 134, 148, 151, 156 (2), 163, 164, 171, 174, 177, 

 180, 192, 195, 199, 201, 365, 381, 383, 385, 386, 393. 



Figures used, by permission of the proprietors of the 

 ' Gardeners' Chronicle,' in the First Edition, are now again 

 repeated at pp. 142, 162, 242, 247, 256, 260, 292, 295, 300, 



310, 324, 361. 



Figures of moths (and, at p. 265, of a caterpillar) from 

 Newman's ' British Moths,' are given, by permission of 

 Messrs. W. H. Allen and Co., at pp. 9, 58, 232, 265 (2), 290, 



311, 320, 322, 335, 336, 338, 390 (2). 



I also acknowledge, with thanks, figures at pp. 144, 196, 

 212, 214, 237, and 308, of which I am permitted the use by 

 Mr. T. P. Newman ; also figures of caterpillars at pp. 290, 322, 

 386, and of wingless moth at 338, after Dr. E. L. Taschen- 

 berg. Also figures of Aphides, at pp. 119 and 280, after 

 drawings by Mr. G. B. Buckton, F.E.S. ; and figures of Eel- 

 worms, at pp. 51 and 53, respectively after drawings by Dr. J. 

 Eitzema Bos and Dr. Charlton Bastian. 



Figures at pp. 286 and 313 are respectively from one of 

 Prof. W. Saunders, and one in the Trans, of the Ent. Soc. of 

 Canada. 



Figure at p. 383, by Prof. C. V. Riley, and also at pp. 81 

 and 392, from ' Pieports of Department of Agriculture,' U.S.A. ; 

 likewise figure at p. 84, after Prof. Webster. 



Also figure at p. 338, after Prof. J. 0. Westwood ; and at 

 p. 385, after figure in Stephens' 'Illus. of British Entomology.' 



Besides the above, are figs, at pp. 1, 33, 77, 78, 80, 82, 83, 

 92, 99, 106, 127, 129, 140, 144, 157, 169, 172, 209, 216, 220, 

 227, 229, 233, 235, 238, 243, 250, 258, 260, 267, 271 (2), 281, 

 286, 297, 303, 306, 318, 330, 376, 382, 393, 395 (2), drawn 

 partly by myself, but for the most part by Mr. Horace Knight, 

 artist to Messrs. West, Newman & Co., 54, Hatton Garden. 



The portrait which has been prefixed to the work, by desire 

 of friends, is from a photo by Messrs. Byrne & Co., Piichmond, 

 Surrey, the reproduction being printed for me by permission of 



