iv Preface. 



The Alicro-Lcpidopteva are unsuited to popular treatment, on account of their 

 small size and great number. Had the)- been included in detail, the size of the 

 book would have been doubled, simply by the addition of those groups of small 

 moths in which many collectors take little or no interest. A brief account of some 

 of the principal groups, illustrated by two plates, has, however, been given ; and 

 much oreneral information with regard to them will also be found to be contained 



o o 



in the Introduction. 



\Y. F. KIRBY. 



Loiuion. 1882. 



