IV 
PREFACE. 
exact locality and date of capture were affixed. 2. A collection of about 700 species made 
on the southern slopes by Mr. Alfred Lindsay during the last fifteen years^ of which a 
selection has been retained for the British Museum. 3. The numerous species ot Nilgiri 
Moths in Col. C. Swinhoe's Collection ; supplemented by a few species from Mr. F. Moore^'s 
and the old British Museum Collections. 
Keferences and synonymy are only given when they in any way differ from those in Cotes 
and Swinhoe's ' Catalogue of the Moths of India/ and tlie arrangement of that work has 
been followed^ except in tlie Pyrales, in which the order of the genera is that adopted in 
the British Museum. Mr. Warren, who has recently arranged this part of the Museum 
Collection, has kindly placed his Manuscript Notes on the synonymy, so far as they affect 
Nilgiri species, at my disposal. 
Our best thanks are due to Mr. Hampson for the care and time which he has devoted 
to the preparation of this part ; to Mr. Moore and Col. Swinhoe, who have given to him 
much assistance during the progress of the work ; and to Prof. Westwood, who has allowed 
him free access to the Hope Collection in the Oxford Museum. 
ALBERT GUIsTHEH, 
Keeper of the Department of Zoology. 
British Museum, N. H., April 23, 1891. 
