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AUTHOR S PREFACE. 



British Museum, and Mr. G. E. Bryant, o£ the Imperial 

 Bureau of Entomology, for courtesy shown me while I 

 was working in the Museum. 



In this book, as elsewhere, I have introduced mauy 

 new names which are derived from Sanskrit roots. This 

 procedure has enabled me to save time which must other- 

 wise be spent in bibliographical research in order to 

 find out whether a name is already preoccupied or not. 

 The sole responsibility for the derivations and meanings 

 (given in the footnotes) of such new names rests with 

 me. In my previous volume the derivations of new names 

 were not given, but in the present case I have thought 

 it best to do so, though the practice has been applied 

 only to those of Sanskrit origin, and has not been extended 

 to names of new species which are derived from Greek 

 or Latin sources and which are familiar by long use 

 in zoological nomenclature. 



London, 



February, 1926. 



S. MAULIK. 



