﻿PREFACE. 



The object of the present Catalogue is to give a com- 

 plete list of all the genera and species of Noctuidae known 



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to exist in the different collections. The letters a, b, c, 



&c., after the species, denote the specimens now contained 

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 ' in the British Museum, followed by the habitat and the mode 



in which each of them was obtained, and the absence of 



these letters indicates the species which are desiderata, and 



! therefore desirable to be procured for the collection. 



JOHN EDWARD GEAY. 



British Museum, 



2^th April, 1858. 



