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thanks are due to my wife, for the execution of figs. 25, 167, 184, 

 185, 187, 188, and for her valuable help in indexing ; to Mr F. W. 

 Carpenter, M.A., of Sydney Grammar School, for much arduous 

 work in the field, for advice and help in the preparation of wing- 

 photographs, and for the two beautiful photographs reproduced 

 in Plate IV; to Dr F. Ris, of Rheinau, Switzerland, for the loan 

 of publications from his library, and for much useful help and 

 criticism; to M. Rene Martin, of Paris, for an account of the 

 Ethiopian fauna ; to Professor P. P. Calvert, Ph.D., of Philadelphia, 

 for an account of the fauna of the New World, and for other in- 

 formation; to Dr F. F. Laidlaw, of Uffculme, Devon, for an 

 account of the Oriental fauna; to Mr R. A. Muttkowski, B.Sc., 

 of Madison, Wisconsin, for information on the Nearctic fauna; 

 to Mr K. J. Morton, of Edinburgh, and Mr Herbert Campion, 

 of Baling, W., for specimens of, and information concerning the 

 British and European fauna; to Dr S. J. Johnston, Lecturer in 

 Zoology, University of Sydney, for assistance in drawing up the 

 glossary; to Mr B. G. Engelhardt, of Hornsby, for geological 

 information; and finally to those many other correspondents, 

 whose exchanges of publications and specimens have indirectly 

 helped me in the completion of this work. 



R. J. TILLYARD. 



'KURANDA," 



MOUNT ERRINGTON, 

 HORNSBY, N.S.W. 



September 30th, 1916. 



