IV PREFACE. 



me with specimens or information during the progress of this 

 volume. 



And I have also to thapk the subscribers to the Natural History 

 of the Tineina ' for the patience with which they have waited for 

 the appearance of vol. xi. (the first of the new series) ; the printing 

 of that volume is nearly completed, and, but for the probability of 

 delay in the colouring of the plates, would most likely be issued 

 simultaneously with this which has an advantage in that respect, 

 not having any colourer to wait for. 



The single Plate which accompanies this volume is nearly a fac- 

 simile reproduction of the original plate in the first volume of the 

 * Memoires de Mathematique et de Physique presentes a 1' Academic 

 Koyale des Sciences/ one or two details only being omitted so as to 

 enable the original quarto to be reproduced in an octavo form. 



I shall hope now soon to be able to turn my attention to the 

 promised volume on the Tineina of Scandinavia ; but I hope next 

 summer to have more breathing-time for outdoor entomology ; for I 

 must confess that this summer, with the two volumes going through 

 the press, I have found very little spare time, and, not having set an 

 insect for the last two months, the Psoci on my setting-boards are 

 nearly starved. 



"When Professor Zeller started from Glogau one cold January 

 morning twenty-five years ago, little did he foresee that one of the 

 results of his then journey would be the appearance of the present 

 volume ; I have endeavoured here and there to give it some flavour 

 of the sunny south, recognizable, perhaps, by those who have visited 

 the Mediterranean region ; and if I succeed in inducing one British 

 entomologist to make his first Southern trip, I shall feel that my 

 labour has not been thrown away. 



H. T. STAINTON. 



Mountsfield, Lewisham, near London, 

 October 4th, 1869. 



