VI PKEFACE. 



specimens, and in other ways. He has sustained a great loss by the 

 death of Prof. J. B. Smith, of New Jersey, IJ.S.A., who had been so 

 liberal in connexion with the earlier volumes of the Catalogue in 

 the gift and loan of specimens of North-American Noctuicke, on 

 which he was the recognised authority. 



The coloured drawings which have been made for the author from 

 types of sj)ecies which arc not in the collection of the British 

 Museum, and of which he has been unable to examine specimens, 

 have been reproduced, and are severally acknowledged in the text. 



The Plates to be published in connexion with this volume are 

 numbers CXCIT.-CCXXI. 



SIDNEY F. HARMER, 



Keeper of Zoology. 



British Museum (Natural History), 

 December 20th, 1913. 



