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shortly with the cell, this last family being only distinguishable 

 from the first sub-family of Noctuidce by the antennge being dilated 

 towards extremity in correlation with day-flying habits. 



The principal collectors of moths in South Africa whose material 

 will form the basis of these papers have been — in Mashonaland, Mr. 

 Guy A. K. Marshall, who has sent several very fine collections to 

 the British Museum ; in Matabeleland, Mr. P. Gates, whose collec- 

 tion, described in his volume, is now in the Gxford Museum ; in the 

 N'Gamiland country, Dr. Anderson and Colonel P. D. Lugard ; in 

 the Transvaal, Mr. W. L. Distant, whose collection has been 

 described by himself in his ' Naturalist in the Transvaal ' and 

 various papers, and will be more thoroughly worked out in a volume 

 now in hand, who has kindly lent me any specimens I required for 

 examination ; at Delagoa Bay, Mrs. Monteiro ; in Natal, at Kark- 

 loof, Mr. G. A. K. Marshall ; at Ladysmith, Colonel G. Fawcett, 

 5th Lancers ; at Esteourt, Mr. J. M. Hutchinson ; in the coast belt 

 near Durban, Mr. D. Gooch, Colonel Bowker, Mr. C. W. Barker, 

 whose collection, recently presented to the Oxford Museum, has 

 been lent me by Professor Poulton, and Herr Gueinzius, of Leipsic ; 

 in the interior of Cape Colony, Dr., afterwards Sir C. Smith ; in the 

 Transkei and Eastern district. Miss P. Barrett, whose brother, Mr. 

 G. C. Barrett, has most kindly given me anything required from 

 the collections she has been sending him for many years ; and at 

 Knysna and Cape Town, Mr. Eoland Trimen, P.E.S., till lately 

 Director of the South African Museum, from whose collections came 

 the species figured by Pelder in the Eeise Novarae, which are now 

 in the collection of the Hon. Walter Eothschild ; whilst Mr. W. L, 

 Sclater, the present Director of the Museum, has most kindly sub- 

 mitted to me all the material at his disposal, and Professor Auri- 

 villius, of Stockholm, has been good enough to send me for examina- 

 tion many of the types of species described by Wallengren from 

 South Africa. 



Purther collections from all parts of the country are, however, 

 much wanted, and if sent to me at the British Museum (Natural 

 History), with a number on each species, a list of identifications 

 would be sent in return. 



The only references given are the original reference, those that 

 refer to forms described from South Africa and to a good figure of 

 the insect. 



As coloured figures of all the species in this paper which have not 

 been figured before are given in the first three volumes of the Cat. 

 Lep. Phal. B.M., no plates are necessary to illustrate this paper, 



