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very poor idea of their colour, whilst at the same time the 

 expense of procuring coloured representations of their forms 

 would have greatly exceeded the price of the volume. It 

 has consequently been arranged to represent some of the 

 more important kinds by the three-coloured process, and 

 it is hoped that entomologists in India will be satisfied 

 with the work done by Mr. Knight, who has drawn the 

 coloured figures, and Messrs. Hentschel Ltd., who have 

 photographed them. 



W. T. BLANFORD. 



January 1905. 



