PREFACE. 



The third part of this Work is devoted to illustrations of tyjies of Japanese 

 and Chinese Moths in the British Museum, and therefore may be regarded as 

 a continuation of Part II. It perhaps exhibits even to a greater extent the 

 strongly marked European character of a great portion of this fauna, as 

 remarked iipon already in the preceding part. 



Again, the greater part of the species represented are from the Collection 

 made at Yokohama by Mr. F. M. Jonas, and that formed by Mr. H. Whitely 

 at Hakodate. 



The Chinese species are, almost without exception, nearly allied to 

 Japanese forms ; several species, moreover, are common to both localities. 



The descriptions of the third part, like those of the preceding, have been 

 prepared by Mr. A. G. Butler, F.L.S., one of the Senior Assistants in the 

 Department of Zoology. 



ALBERT GtiNTHER, 



Keeper of the Department of Zoologij, 



British Museum, Janwarij 3, 1879. 



