

PREFACE. 



The Trustees of the British Museum having declined to proceed with my 

 Catalogue of the Lycjenid^e, I have thought it best to continue these Illus- 

 trations as a separate work, and under a title which is intelligible. I have to 

 regret, now, that a wish to contribute to a national work, as well as to avoid 

 the personal cost attending such a publication, induced me to offer my services 

 to a body of men who, with two or three exceptions, know nothing, and care as 

 little, about Natural History. They have marred the uniformity of a work 

 into which I had entered with all my heart. 



To make this new work as complete as it is now in my power to do, I have 

 incorporated all the species of Lycsenidse mentioned in the British Museum 

 Catalogue, making a few corrections, and introducing the new species ot 

 Amblypodia in their proper places. 



I hope to proceed with the Lycaenidse in my next Part ; but in order to feel 



