viii PREFACE 
South’s list is in some instances added in brackets. The author’s 
name is in that chapter given only in cases of difficult synonymy. 
All authors’ names, of genera as well as species, are given in 
the Index, but in the text the name of the author of species only 
is given, and that but once in each chapter. 
Generic names in brackets are sometimes those of sub-genera, 
sometimes synonyms: they are given solely to facilitate the identifi¬ 
cation of species figured or described in much used works. 
Inconsistencies of nomenclature no doubt occur; they are partly 
due to the fact that, e.g Bingham’s “Butterflies of India” appeared 
after my captures of 1903-4 had been determined, partly to the 
fact that I have not felt equal to harmonizing the occasionally 
discordant determinations of specialists. 
The names of insects alluded to merely by way of illustration 
or comparison are not indexed. Names of plants are indexed by 
genera only, and the natural order is given in brackets. The 
Appendix is not indexed. 
My knowledge of systematic entomology is very slight and 
almost confined to the Butterflies, hence as a collector of Insects 
of all Orders, in diverse parts of the world, I have been more than 
usually dependent upon specialists. My thanks are due in the 
first place to the Entomological Staff of the British Museum, without 
whose kindness the large majority of my captures would be still 
unnamed. Yaluable help has also been received from Mr. G. T. 
Bethune-Baker, Dr. Malcolm Burr, Mr. J. E. Collin, Mr. H. Druce, 
Mr. H. H. Druce (who has devoted much time to my Blues 
and Skippers), Prof. Selwyn Image, Mr. W. J. Kaye, Mr. G. A. K. 
Marshall, the Rev. F. D. Morice (who named my Egyptian and 
Sudanese Hymenoptera), Mr. L. B. Prout, Mr. R. Trimen, F.R.S., 
Commander J. J. Walker, and Col. J. W. Yerbury. Other kind 
helpers are mentioned in the text. 
Some to whom I owe much have been lost to entomology since this 
book was begun: C. T. Bingham, Martin Jacoby, Edward Saunders, 
and G. H. Yerrall have truly left gaps that it will be hard to fill. 
To the skill of Mr. Horace Knight and his son, Mr. Edgar S. 
Knight, my book owes any attractiveness that it may possess. 
