PREFACE. Vll. 



To those whose names have previously been published have 

 now to be added — 



Kearfott, W. D. 



musham, j. f. / 



North London Natural History 



Society 

 Rogers. E. A. 

 Smith, G. B. 

 Wheeler (Rev.), G-., M.A. 



Allen, J. E. R., F.E.S. 

 Ashby, H., E.E.S., 

 Barnes, William 

 Bland (Major), T. D. 

 Emsley, F. 

 Gardner, Jno., F.E.S. 



(omitted by error from vol. i.) 

 Gardner, J. E. 



I would here beg all subscribers to send me in detail a list of 

 the species that inhabit their own immediate neighbourhood for 

 use in future volumes. Many lepidopterists, living in outlying and 

 little worked districts, can be of the greatest service in this direction. 

 It will be observed that some counties are scarcely ever mentioned 

 in the lists of " Localities," even for the commonest species. It is, 

 unfortunately, the occurrence of common and less local species that 

 is least often recorded. Of the capture of rarities one always 

 hears ; it is much more difficult to make up a really good list showing 

 the distribution of the more common species in the British Islands, 

 due to the fact that so many lepidopterists consider that the record of 

 the occurrence of a common species is not worth making. May I 

 ask each of our subscribers to send up his own complete list of 

 localities for all the remaining British Sphingid species (rare or 

 common) not treated in this volume, so that I may have really 

 reliable data as to the distribution of these species? It is the detail 

 that is valuable. I would earnestly ask our lepidopterists to give me 

 such information as they can. 



J. W. TUTT. 



