IV 



PREFACE. 



exact locality and date of capture were afifixed. 2. A collection of about 700 species made 

 on the southern slopes by Mr. Alfred Lindsay during the last fifteen years, of which a 

 selection has been retained for the British Museum. 3. The numerous species of Nilgiri 

 Moths in Col. C. Swinhoe's Collection ; supplemented by a few species from Mr. F. ]\Ioore's 

 and the old British Museum Collections. 



References and synonymy are only given when they in any way differ from those in Cotes 

 and Swinhoe's ' Catalogue of the Moths of India/ and the arrangement of that work has 

 been followed, except in the Pyrales, in which the order of the genera is that adopted in 

 the British Museum. Mr. Warren, who has recently arranged this part of the Museum 

 Collection, has kindly placed his Manuscript Notes on the synonymy, so far as they affect 

 Nilgiri species, at my disposal. 



Our best thanks are due to Mr. Hampson for the care and time which he has devoted 

 to the preparation of this part ; to Mr. Moore and Col. Swinhoe, who have given to him 

 much assistance during the progress of the work ; and to Prof. Westwood, who has allowed 

 him free access to the Hope Collection in tiie Oxford Museum. 



ALBERT GiJNTHER, 

 Keeper of the Department of Zoology. 



British Museum, N. H., April 23, 1891. 



