2 IKTEODUCTOttY BEMAEK8. 



1811. The Asiatic Society of Bengal. — A series of Insects in all 



Orders. 

 John McClelland, IJsq. — Specimens from Assam. 



1812. J. T. Pearson, £sq. — Specimens from Darjeeling, in all Orders. 

 The Bengal Government. — The Entomological Collection made 



in Chusan by Theodore Cantor, M.D., acting as Naturalist 

 during the Chinese Expedition. 



1843. The Bombay Government. — The Entomological Collections 



made during the mission of Sir W. C. Harris to Abyssinia. 



1844. The Asiatic Society of Bengal. — Insects in all Orders. 



1849 to 185G. Ezra T. Downes, Esq., Deputy Assay-master, Bomhay 

 Mint. — Large Collections of Insects in all Orders (accom- 

 panied by Notes), received by several despatches. 



1849. Colonel F. Buckley. — A large Collection of Insects in all 



Orders, from the Himalayas, &c. 

 Brigadier- General J. B. Hearsey. — A small Series of Lepi- 

 doptera, received througb J. O. Westwood, Esq. 



1850. Colonel W. H. Sykes. — A Series of Insects preserved in spirit. 

 Captain Richard Strachey. — A Series of Insects from Ladakh. 



1853. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. — A Series of Insects from the central 



regions of Nepal. 



1854. Theodore Cantor, M.D. — A Collection of Insects in all Orders, 



from Penang. 

 1856. J. C. Boioring, Esq. — A Series of Insects from North China. 



Messrs. S. Sf JR. Schlagintweit. — An extensive Collection of 

 Insects in all Orders, from Darjeeling, &c. 



The Bengal Government. — The Collection of Insects trans- 

 mitted for exhibition at the Exposition UniverseUe at 

 Paris in 1855. 



In the Catalogue which is now oiBcred to the public under the 

 auspices of the Honourable Court of Directors of the East- India 

 Company, it is intended to describe the Lepidopterous Insects con- 

 tained in the Company's Museum. The Materials for this Work 

 have been enumerated above in the chronological order of their 

 contribution. 



When I commenced a Systematic arrangement of the earlier 

 Collections in 1820, soon after my arrival in England, they con- 

 sisted, with the exception of a small number of specimens from 

 Ceylon, exclusively of the Lepidopterous Insects from Java, which 



