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now cordially thank for invaluable sympathetic assistance. 

 Special acknowledgments are due to Sir Wm. Henry Marling, 

 Bart., the present owner of Sedbury Park, and to Miss 

 Ormerod's nephews and nieces, who have been delighted to 

 render such assistance as could not have been found outside 

 the family circle. Besides Mr. Grimshaw, Mr. Janson, Dr. 

 Stewart MacDougall, Professor Hudson Beare, and Mr. T. P. 

 Newman who read the proofs critically, last, but not least, 

 do I thank Mr. John Murray, whose friendly reception of 

 the first overtures made to him as the prospective pub- 

 lisher of this volume brightened some of the dark moments 

 near the close of Miss Ormerod's life. I have had as editor 

 the much appreciated privilege of drawing, in all cases of 

 difficulty, upon Mr. Murray's great literary experience. 



In making these pleasing acknowledgments I in no way 

 wish to shift the responsibility as Editor from my own 

 shoulders for defects which may be discovered or for the 

 general scheme of the work, which was, with slight modifi- 

 cations, my own. If it be said in criticism that the Editor 

 is too little in evidence, I shall be all the more satisfied, as 

 that has been throughout one of his leading aims. 



ROBERT WALLACE. 



UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, 

 1904. 



LIST OF ERRATA. 



Page 70, line 31, for " Tenebroides" read " Tenebrioides." 

 130, ,, n,for"Ceutorhyncus"rea.d"Cetithorhyncus." 

 in description of Fig. 14, for " CEUTORHYXCUS " read 



" CEUTHORHYXCUS." 



144, line 7, for "importad" read " imported." 

 185, i, for "Lucania" read " Leucania." 



