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the Editors and their collectors although including descrip- 

 tions from other (but by no means all available) sources. 

 Pages 44-45 briefly enumerate the "Sources from whence our 

 material was obtained" ; pp. 46-54, "Itinerary of Mr. G. C. 

 Champion's travels in Central America, 1879-1883," much of 

 which appeared first in the News for February, 1907 (vol. 

 xviii, pp. 33-44). A "List" and "Analysis of Contents of 

 each" of the 51 volumes on Zoology, 5 on Botany and 5 on 

 Archaeology, which constitute this vast undertaking, fill pages 

 55 to 86. 



In the Preface, dated June, 191 5, Dr. Godman remarks: 



It had been our intention at the termination of the work, and after 

 a careful study of the Zoological and Botanical material accumulated 

 from this hitherto little known but exceedingly rich country, to have 

 summarized the result and discussed its bearing on the interesting sub- 

 ject of geographical distribution. Salvin's death after a long illness, 

 and my own advancing years and ill-health, compelled me to abandon 

 this project, and I should have been obliged to content myself with the 

 conclusions arrived at by the various contributors in their respective 

 Introductions had it not been for the assistance of Messrs. R. I. Po- 

 cock and C. Tate Regan [whose essays are cited above] As re- 

 gards the Insecta generally, which occupy such a large portion of the 

 work, so little is as yet known of the fauna of other tropical regions 

 that no satisfactory comparison can be made. 



Of special interest to entomologists is the fact that of the 51 

 volumes of Zoology, 4 are devoted to Arachnida, i to Myrio- 

 poda and 38 to Insecta (18 Coleoptera, 3 Hymenoptera, 7 

 Lepidoptera, 3 Diptera, 4 Rhynchota, i Neuroptera. 2 Orthop- 

 tera). All the insects from Mexico and Central America and 

 the Editors' collections of butterflies have been presented to 

 the British Museum. "Our own general collection of butter- 

 flies probably included nearly 100,000 specimens and the 

 beetles alone from Mexico and Central America perhaps 

 double that number." The other insects, as presented up to 

 1906, were estimated as 17,525 Diptera, 10,000 Hymenoptera, 

 5543 Heteroptera. Subsequent gifts include 3000 Odonata, 

 5500 Homoptera, 6293 unworked parasitic Hymenoptera 

 (p. 12). 



The eight maps with which the Introductory volume ter- 



