PREFACE 



At the request of Professor Westwood, and under the 

 orders and sanction of the Delegates of the Press, this work 

 is being produced as a students' handbook to all the 

 Eastern Moths in the Oxford University Museum, including 

 chiefly the Walkerian types of the moths collected by Wal- 

 lace in the Malay Archipelago, which for many years have 

 been lost sight of and forgotten for want of a catalogue of 

 reference. 



The Oxford University Museum collection of moths is 

 very largely a collection of the types of Hope, Saunders, 

 Walker, and Moore, many of the type specimens being 

 unique and of great scientific value. 



All Walker's types mentioned in his Catalogue of Hetero- 

 cerous Lepidoptera in the British Museum as ' in coll. Saun- 

 ders ' should be in the Oxford Museum, as also the types 

 of all the species therein mentioned by him as described in 

 Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 3rd sen vol. i. 



The types of all the species mentioned in Walker's cata- 

 logue which have a given locality preceding the lettered 

 localties showing that they are in the British Museum should 

 also be in the Oxford Museum. In so far as this work has 

 proceeded this has been proved to be the case by the correct- 



