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PEEFACE. 
' Illustrations ' to the description of the types of the new species, but to add a nominal list of 
all the species contained in the collection. • 
It was at first intended that Mr. F. Moore should undertake the examination of this 
collection ; bvit as his other engagements would have delayed the publication for some years, 
this work devolved upon Mr. Butler. However, Mr. Moore had examined and named some 
of the specimens some time previously and published diagnoses in the ' Proceedings of the 
Zoological Society/ 1888, pp. 390-412. In some instances there are discrepancies between 
that paper and the present work as regards the localities at which certain species were 
ol)tained. The localities are given here on the authority of Mr. Hocking, who has been kind 
enough to look over the proof-sheets. 
With reference to the characteristics of the LepidopLerous Fauna of Kangra, Mr. Butler 
states that, " with the light thrown upon certain forms by the series of variations secured by 
Mr. Hocking, it has been found impossible to keep some of these forms distinct from those 
of Europe and Japan; the Lepidoptera of these countries are, indeed, more numerously 
represented at Dharmsala than in any other part of India which has been equally well 
explored." 
ALBERT GUNTHER, 
Keeper of the Department of Zoology. 
British Miisaim, N. H., January 22, 1889. 
