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China wherever sufficient material was available or where knowledge of these species 

 is particularly relevant to the identification and distribution of the Chinese species. 

 This inclusion of non-Chinese species anticipates, to some extent, future records of 

 species not yet known from China. Seven of the Drepaninae genera represented in 

 China have been revised as a result of this wider treatment. 



The nominal genera Ditrigona Moore (1887 : 258), Peridrepana Butler (1889 : 43) 

 and Leucodrepana Hampson (1892 : 333) are excluded from discussion in the 

 following paper as they are currently being revised by Dr. C. Wilkinson. A revision 

 of Teldenia Moore (1882 : 119) was published by Wilkinson (1967) during the final 

 stages of the preparation of this paper. Two species of Teldenia have been recorded 

 from China. 



Apart from the extensive collection in the Museum Koenig, Bonn, important 

 material has been lent to me by the following museums and institutes : Hope 

 Department, University Museum, Oxford, U.K. ; Landhauptstadt Wiesbaden 

 Stadtisches Museum, Germany ; Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 

 France ; Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria ; Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, 

 Stockholm, Sweden ; Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, Netherlands ; 

 United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. ; Zoological Institute, 

 Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Leningrad, U.S.S.R. Further material was 

 borrowed from the private collections of Drs. F. Daniel (Munich), H. Inoue (Japan), 

 and H. Yamamoto (Japan). The types of nearly all the nominal species mentioned 

 in the text have been examined by the author either in the BM(NH) or in European 

 museums. The types of Matsumura species have been kindly studied for me by 

 Dr. H. Inoue in Japan. Lectotypes have been selected where necessary and where 

 it has been possible to examine the syntypic material. 



I should like to acknowledge the generous co-operation of the following workers 

 who have helped by arranging loans of material or in other ways : Dr. C. Besuchet, 

 Geneva, Switzerland ; Dr. F. Daniel, Munich, Germany ; Dr. D. Davis, Washington, 

 D.C., U.S.A. ; Dr. W. D. Duckworth, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. ; Dr. M. Falkovitch, 

 Leningrad, U.S.S.R. ; Mr. D. S. Fletcher, London, U.K. ; Dr. W. Forster, Munich, 

 Germany ; Dr. E. Franz, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany ; Dr. F. J. Gross, Wies- 

 baden, Germany ; Dr. H. J. Hannemann, Berlin, D.D.R. ; the late Dr. B. Hanson, 

 Stockholm, Sweden ; Dr. H. Inoue, Fujisawa, Japan ; Dr. F. Kasy, Vienna, 

 Austria ; Dr. A. I. Kurentzov, Vladivostok, U.S.S.R. ; Dr. C. Lemaire, Paris, 

 France ; Dr. B. Mannheims, Bonn, Germany ; Dr. I. W. B. Nye, London, U.K. ; 

 Dr. E. C. Popham, Salford, U.K. ; Dr. U. Roesler, Bonn, Germany ; Dr. K. Sattler, 

 London, U.K. ; Dr. H. Schroder, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany ; Mr. E. Taylor, 

 Oxford, U.K. ; Dr. E. Todd, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. ; Professor G. C. Varley, 

 Oxford, U.K. ; Dr. P. Viette, Paris, France ; Mr. P. E. S. Whalley, London, U.K. ; 

 Dr. C. Wilkinson, Portsmouth, U.K. ; Dr. H. Yamamoto, Fukuoka, Japan. The 

 technical assistance of Miss K. Brookes, Miss R. Hauenstein and Mrs. J. E. Saunders 

 is also gratefully acknowledged. 



It would be difficult to overestimate the magnanimous help given to me by the 

 late Dr. H. Hone of the Museum Koenig, Bonn, who made available his superb 



