﻿PREFACE 



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

 plete Hst of all the genera and species of Noctuid^ known 

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

 &c after the species, denote the specimens now contained 

 in the British Museum, followed by the habUat and the mode 

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

 these letters indicates the species which are desiderata, a^d 

 therefore desirable to be procured for the collection. 



This Part of the Catalogue of Lepidopterous Insects 

 completes the Lepidoptera Heterocera a. far as the con^ 

 elusion of the Noctuid^, and has been prepared and the new 

 insects described by Mr. Francis Walker, so well known for 

 bis attention to this order of Insects. 



Part XVI. comprising the PyraUdffi is in course of pre- 

 paration and will shortly appear. 



JOHN EDWARD GBAY. 



British Museum, 



August 20th, 1858. 



