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list of recorded localities of each species, it should be noted that 

 (i) when I have personally captured the species, the name of 

 the place is given alone ; (2) when I have received specimens 

 of the species and determined them, the name of the collector 

 (in italics and bracketed) immediately follows that of the place ; 

 and (3) when place and collector are quoted from other authors, 

 they are placed between inverted commas, and the name of the 

 author responsible is added. 



The coloured plates are wholly new, none of the species 

 represented in the former work being re-figured. Plates I. and 



II. are devoted to larvae and pupae, taken from life by myself 

 in a few instances, but mostly drawn by other observers. Plates 



III. to IX. depict perfect insects of the Families treated in 

 Parts I. and II. of the work, exhibiting both upper and under 

 surfaces of the wings. Three other plates have been executed 

 in illustration of Part III. While the figures are for the most 

 part those of new or previously unfigured species, a fair pro- 

 portion consists of more accurate representations of butterflies 

 hitherto inadequately depicted, or of which only one sex had 

 been illustrated. They have been chromo-lithographed from 

 nature by Messrs. West, Newman, & Co., of Hatton Garden, 

 London. 



Although for many years fortunately situated as regards 

 the prosecution of this work by my tenure of the Curatorship 

 of the South-African Museum, I have, on the other hand, had 

 to sustain the serious disadvantage of being tied by official 

 duties to a locality lamentably barren of butterfly life. Cape 

 Town and its neighbourhood is absolutely not more productive 

 of species than Brighton, and, as regards size (with three excep- 

 tions) and abundance of individuals, the butterflies of the South- 

 African metropolis compare very badly with the series yielded 

 by the principal town of Sussex. Beyond a stay for nine months 

 in the Knysna district, and occasional more or less hurried ex- 

 cursions to Namaqualand, Griqualand West, Grahamstown, and 



