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1. Introduction

Gochermann et al. (1993a; hereafter Paper I) have published high accuracy UBV photometries of 955 galactic foreground stars in the direction to the Large Magellanic Cloud. These stars were mainly selected from the catalogues of LMC foreground and member stars compiled by Fehrenbach & Duflot (1970, 1973, 1974, 1981, and 1982) and others (cf. Paper I). The photometries are part of a comprehensive data base presently (January 1996) containing the available information on more than tex2html_wrap_inline965 LMC member stars, nearly tex2html_wrap_inline967 galactic foreground stars, and about 330 stars of uncertain membership (Gochermann et al. 1993b; Gochermann et al. 1995).

The present publication (Paper II) contains a supplement of UBV photometries of altogether 924 further galactic stars in front of the LMC, which have not been listed in Paper I, and of which no reliable UBV photometries have been published before. As a first application of the photometries published in Papers I and II, a high resolution (10tex2html_wrap975) galactic foreground reddening map towards the LMC has been constructed by Oestreicher et al. (1995).



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