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PREFACE. 
list of recorded localities of each species, it should be noted that 
(i) when I have personally captured the species, the name of 
the place is given alone ; (2) when I have received specimens 
of the species and determined them, the name of the collector 
(in italics and bracketed) immediately follows that of the place ; 
and (3) when place and collector are quoted from other authors, 
they are placed between inverted commas, and the name of the 
author responsible is added. 
The coloured plates are wholly new, none of the species 
represented in the former work being re-figured. Plates 1. and 
II. are devoted to larvae and pupae, taken from life by myself 
in a few instances, but mostly drawn by other observers. Plates 
I [I. to IX. depict perfect insects of the Families treated in 
Parts I. and II. of the work, exhibiting both upper and under 
surfaces of the wings. Three other plates have been executed 
in illustration of Part III. While the figures are for the most 
part those of new or previously anfigured species, a fair pro- 
portion consists of more accurate representations of butterflies 
hitherto inadequately depicted, or of which only one sex had 
been illustrated. They have been chromo-lithographed from 
nature by Messrs. West, Newman, & Co., of Hatton Garden, 
London. 
Although for many years fortunately situated as regards 
the prosecution of this work by my tenure of the Curatorship 
of the South-African Museum, I have, on the other hand, had 
to sustain the serious disadvantage of being tied by ofiicial 
duties to a locality lamentably barren of butterfly life. Cape 
Town and its neighbourhood is absolutely not more productive 
of species than Brighton, and, as regards size (with three excep- 
tions) and abundance of individuals, the butterflies of the South- 
African metropolis compare very badly with the series yielded 
by the principal town of Sussex. Beyond a stay for nine months 
in the Knysna district, and occasional more or less hurried ex- 
cursions to Namaqunland, Griqualand West, Grahamstown, and 
