VI PREFACE. 



Sir George Hampson has to acknowledge the assistance which he 

 has received, mostly from those whose help has heen referred to 

 in earlier volumes of the Catalogue, by the loan of types and 

 specimens, and in other ways. 



The coloured drawings which have heen made for him from 

 types of species which are not in tlie Collection of the British 

 Museum, and of which he has heen unable to examine specimens, 

 have heen reproduced, and are severally acknowledged in the text. 



The Plates published in connection with tliis volume are 

 niunbers CCXXII.-CCXXXIX. 



CHARLES J. GAHAX, 



Keeper of Entomology. 

 Britisli Museum (Natural History), 

 September 1st, 1913. 



