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With Introduction by John Edward Gray. 'The principal object of the present Catalogue has been to give a complete list of the specimens of Dipterous Insects cotained in the collection of the British Museum, indicating at the same time the peculiarities of each, as regards variations of character, locality, and the source from whence it has been derived.' Scarce complete set: Pts I-IV (pp. 1172), Pts V-VII Supplement [Second Series I-III] (pp. 774).
