Excerpt from A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera, Vol. 1: A Text-Book for Students and Collectors The author is fully aware that in a book containing so much detail, there must necessarily be many sins of commission and omission. He can oury hope that these are not serious, and assure his readers that he has taken the greatest care to eliminate them. The trouble to which the author has been put, and the hours of comparatively waste time that he has spent, in compiling the lists of localities, synonymic tables, distribution, etc., and in unearthing recordsof the rarer varieties and aberrations, owing to the incomplete and imperfect indexes of entomological magazines in general and works on Lepidoptera in particular, have led him to index every reference to super families, families, genera, species, varieties, etc., mentioned in the book. It is trusted that this will be found of great time-saving value to all who have need to refer to the volume. The publication of a purely technical book of this description would be practically impossible but for the generosity of a section of the entomological public who take an author on trust, as it were, and practically guarantee him against any serious financial loss. To the following ladies and gentlemen, therefore, who have in reality brought about the publication of this volume, the author tenders his heartiest thanks, and trusts that it will meet with their full approval and approbation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.