PREFACE. 



The purpose of this volume is to ensure the speedv 

 publication of uuiterial which is required for iniinediate use 

 in other works proceedi>i<T ut the same time, especially in my 

 oontrihutious to the (jeiiera htsectorttm :iml Lepidopteronuii 

 Ca(.(fl(Hp'.s ; the delays incidental to |)iihli<'ati()n tl:r(>u<:h 

 other ehannels would otherwise involve so much :irr;inoe- 

 ment in advance as to seriously hamper the work. It will 

 therefore :i[)pear in instalments of equal size but at irreiiular 

 intervals, as occasion requires. The arrangement of the 

 material must necessarily be to a considerable extent ju'o- 

 miscuous, and not in systematic order, but an index will be 

 given at the end of the volume ; to insist on classified order 

 would be to detroy its use. 



1 would therefore describe it as a spasmodic entoniological 

 magazine ou one subject by a single contributor. 



EDWARD MEYKKiK. 



