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Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge the huge debt we owe to our predecessors, particularly Frances Hemming, Charles Cowan, Ian Nye, Steven Fletcher, Allan Watson and Robert Poole, whose work and that of many contributors worldwide forms the basis for most of the information reproduced here.

We are also grateful to our colleagues at The Natural History Museum, past and present, for their subsequent additions. In particular we thank Klaus Sattler, whose interest in the project and attention to detail in relation to the gelechiid moths, is very much appreciated. George Beccaloni, Kim Goodger, Jeremy Holloway, Martin Honey, Ian Kitching, Geoff Martin, Mark Parsons, Linda Pitkin, Malcolm Scoble, Campbell Smith, Gaden Robinson and Kevin Tuck also provided additional useful information for which we are very grateful. We also thank Gerardo Lamas and Richard Vane-Wright for additional, as yet unpublished, information on butterfly names, particularly regarding their higher classification.

We are also grateful to Niklas Wahlberg, Stockholm University, for much additional data on Nymphalidae and to Willy de Prins, Vlaamse Vereniging voor Entomologie (Flemish Entomological Society), for additional data on Gracillariidae.

Our thanks are also warmly extended to Dr. Mike Lowndes, the Museum's webmaster, for creating this web-based version of the catalogue.

It is inevitable in a project of this size that errors may have been repeated or newly introduced. Full responsibility for these is with the senior author who welcomes additions, corrections and comments (B.Pitkin@nhm.ac.uk).

Last updated 20-Feb-2004 Dr B R Pitkin