PREFACE. Vll 



Making a similar comparison with Mr. Henry Doubleday's 

 list, the figures stand as under : 



Species. 



Enumerated in said list, after excluding the 

 families Cimbidte and Pyraloidte, and the 



genus Tortricodes, there are 294 



Add for species described in this volume, but 

 not inserted in Mr. Doubleday's list ... 9 



Making together . . 303 

 Deduct for species in Mr. Doubleday's list, but 



not mentioned in this book 5 



Result as above . . 298 



By this it will be seen, that, numerically, Mr. Doubleday's and 

 my species approximate very closely. The nine species added to 

 his number are: 1, Antithesia similana; 2, Lozotania latio- 

 rana ; 3^ Lithographia cineraria ; 4, Catoptria fulvana ; 5, Pe- 

 ronea Lipsiana (a doubtful species) ; 6, Peronea comparana ; 

 7, Cnephasia pascuana ; 8, Argyrolepia sub-Baumanniana ; and 

 9, Eupcecilia Vectisana. The omitted species are : 1, Antithesia 

 Grevillana ; 2, Halonota costipunctana ; 3, Dicrorampha senec- 

 tana ; 4, Cnephasia Colquhounana ; and 5, Sericoris herbana. 



I cannot conclude without tendering my most sincere and 

 heartfelt thanks to ALL those gentlemen who have so liberally 

 and unhesitatingly assisted me with information^ loans of books 

 and specimens ; some of these latter of great rarity. My obli- 

 gations in these respects are so very numerous, that I will not 

 attempt to mention each individually ; but as I feel that especial 

 thanks are due to Messrs. Allis, Bedell, Bond, Boyd, Chapman 

 of Glasgow, Dalman, Doubleday, Douglas, Edleston, Hogan, 

 Machin, Newnham, Nicholls, Parfitt, Edwin Shepherd, Stainton, 

 H. Tompkins, Vaughan, J. J. Weir, and T. Wilkinson of Scar- 

 borough, they are acknowledged accordingly. 



S. J. WILKINSON. 



No. 7, Jeffreys Square, St. Mary Axe, London, E.G., 

 21st March, 1859. 



