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I am also greatly indebted to many Colonial correspondents, 

 scattered over the great South African area, who have for years 

 collected and sent me their captures. To mention them all would 

 necessitate a long list indeed, but I cannot sufficiently thank Messrs. 

 A. W. Eriksson, G. A. K. Marshall, J. F. Darling, Eev. H. Junod, 

 C. N. Barker, A. E. Haviland, F. C. Selous, Dr. F. Purcell, Eev. 

 O'Neil, G. Warden, and G. Alston, for the invaluable assistance 

 rendered me in procuring specimens from Ovampoland, Zambezia, 

 Mozambique, Natal, Matabele and Manica lands, Cape Colony, and 

 Bushman and Bechuana lands. It is to them that I am mostly 

 indebted for the accumulation of material which has enabled me to 

 add so much, not only to the knowledge of the South African cara- 

 bidous fauna, but also to that of the other families of the Order. 



The greatest number of genera and species described in this 

 volume are kept in the cabinets of the South African Museum. 



