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madé a list of tlie specics not représentée! in the Brilish Muséum col- 

 lection, I wenl to Paris in July 1896 and selecled, with the assistance 

 of M. J. de Joannis. from the material in Madame Ragonot's charge ail 

 that was necessary to complète the Volume and, having brought it to 

 London, I began work on the descriptions which were to be written in 

 Englisb, then sent to M. Constant al the Golfe Juan for translation inlo 

 French, then back to me for approval. The descriptions were completed 

 and llie whole of the m. s. sent lo M. Constant by April 1897; since 

 which time lill the présent, August 1900, the work of revision, transla- 

 tion and coloring of plaies bas been gradually progressing. 



The spécimens I had borrowed were relurned lo Paris, and, after 

 those lent lo Ragonot had been relurned lo their owners, the wbole of 

 the Ragonot collection was presented by Madame Ragonot to the 

 Paris Muséum, as lier husband had wisbed. 



Of the plates of Lhe second Volume, I found that n os 24 to 46 had 

 already been drawn, that lhe arrangement of PI. 47 had partly been 

 plahncd and referred lo in the first Volume, but it had not yet been 

 drawn, whilst plates 48 to 57 were cntirely arranged by nryself, drawn 

 by M'. Horace Knight, and prinled byMess. West Newman and Co, being 

 sent lo be colored by hand in Paris. 



I bave therefore, in whal I bave doue, lcept exaelly to lhe scheme 

 prepared by Ragonot, only making such additions and corrections as 

 were necessary. I added ail gênera and species known to me up to 

 April 1897 of lhe second group of Phycids, Anerastids and Gallerids 

 that had not been included by Ragonot and wrole the whole of the 

 Supplément lo the tirst group of Phycids which had been classified in 

 the flrst Volume, the portions written by me being indicated by an * at 

 the beginning and lhe initiais g. f. h. al lhe end of the paragraphs, 

 being greally assisted by lhe loan of ail the species I required from 

 the collections of Rev. G. D. Hulst in New York, MM. de Joannis and 

 M. PaulMabille in Paris, and the Hon ble Walter Rothschild, M'.E. Meyrick, 

 M 1 . W. Schaus, M 1 '. Herbert Druce and the Oxford Muséum in England. 



I am fully conscious of lhe deficiencies of my part of the work in 

 comparison with whal Ragonot, with his many years of study of the 

 subject, would hâve made of it, but in this I musl ask for the indulgence 

 of lhe entomological public; it is never easy to complète anolher man's 

 work and adopt his scheme, and perhaps it is still more difficult to do 

 so when written in a Ianguage not one's own ; yet at ail events 



