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PREFACE. 



THE specimens, forming the following Catalogue, were 

 collected by Mr. B. H. Hodgson during his residence in 

 Nepal, and are the types of the specimens described in 

 that gentleman's various scientific papers. 



A series was selected from them for the British Museum 

 collection, and the duplicates were distributed in series and 

 sent to various British and Continental collections, in the 

 following order. 



1. Museum of the Hon. East India Company. 



2. Museum of the University of Leyden. 



3. Museum of the Garden of Plants, Paris. 



4. Museum of the University of Berlin. 



5. Museum of the Senckenbergen Society at Francfort. 



6. Museum of the University of Edinburgh. 



7. Museum of Trinity College, Dublin. 



8. Museum of the Natural History Society, Newcastle- 

 on-Tyne. 



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