A D V E R T I S E M E N T .
THE donation made to the University of Oxford by the late Risv. F. W . HOPE, of his
entire Collections and Library of Natural History, and the subsequent acquisition of tlie
Burchell, Wells, and other Collections, including also my own, have enriched the University
Museum with a large number of new and rare species of Insects, from which it has
been considered advisable that a selection should be made for illustration in a manner
worthy both of the donor and the University.
In making this selection I have considered that it would be most beneficial to illustrate
certain Groups or Families rather than isolated Species.
With this view the Groups of GoliathidiB and CremastocheilidEe have been selected ;
a complete Monograph of the latter being given, with figures of upwards of one hundred
Species. Of the singular Family Paussidse upwards of fifty Species are figured for the
fii-st time, together with many other curious Coleoptera. Many remarkable Groups and
Species belonging to the Orders Hymenoptera, Orthoptera, Neuroptera, Ilemiptera, and
Lepidoptera, as well as several singular Apterous Groups, are also given.
The Plates are engraved and coloured from drawings and dissections prepared by
myself.
I have considered it due to the memory of Mr. HOPE to reprint the late Dr. PETTIGEEw's
Biographical Notice of him, together with a concise account of tlie Collections
presented by him to the University of Oxford, and a list of his published Works and
Memoirs.
J. 0. WESTWOOD.
OXFORD, October, 1873.