VI PREFACE. 



cannot be ignored even in a popular work ; consequently I 

 have ventured to adopt sundry changes in arrangement and in 

 names which, although not departing from the old style in any 

 very large way, still approach pretty closely to the new. 



I have again to tender my sincere thanks to Mr. Robert 

 Adkin, F.E.S., for kindly lending specimens of rare species and 

 varieties for figuring ; and also to Mr. B. Adkin, F.E.S., Mr. G. 

 T. Porriit, F.E.S., and Mr. A. J. ScoUick, F.E.S. I desire also 

 to gratefully acknowledge the loan of further beautiful coloured 

 drawings by Mr. Alfred Sich, F.E S. These figures have been 

 most accurately reproduced in black and white by Mr. Horace 

 Knight, to whom I am greatly indebted for his able assistance 

 in connection with the numerous drawings of ova, larvae, and 

 pupae. In some cases the preserved skin of a caterpillar had 

 to serve as a model, and where this occurs the fact is 

 mentioned. A few figures of larvae have been copied from 

 Dr. G. Hofmann's Die Ratipen der Schjttetterliiige Europas^ 2nd 

 edit., by Professor Dr. Arnold Spuler. All such reproductions 

 are duly noted in the text. 



Mr. Knight is also responsible for the coloured drawings for 

 Plates I, 13, 36, 61, 96, 98, 100, 104, 134, and 14.8 ; the figures 

 on which, except that of Zygcena filipendiil<x ab. chrysanthemi^ 

 are from specimens. 



"A Forester," Mr. H. Main, F.E.S., and Mr. W. J. Lucas, 

 B.A., F.E.S. , were good enough to furnish prints of some of 

 their excellent photographs depicting life-history details of 

 moths and caterpillars in repose, as met with in nature. 



RICHARD SOUTH. 



