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money was remitted to Mrs. Curtis in payment for them on July 2nd 

 of that year. These Collections are contained in five mahogany 

 cabinets, four at least of which, containing the British insects of all 

 Orders, are of the celebrated 8tandish make ; the fifth, a tall cabinet 

 of fifty drawers, is appropriated to a general collection of exotic 

 insects. A very fine forty-drawer cabinet contains the Lepidoptera, 

 the Cohoptera occupy another of twenty drawers, and two others of 

 twenty-four drawers each contain the remaining Orders. These 

 Collections are in precisely the same state as when they were received 

 at Melbourne, nothing having been added to or taken from them since 

 their arrival in the Museum. 



All the insects are set in the old style, low down on the pins, the 

 wings of the Lepidoptera, and the legs of the beetles, nearly or quite 

 touching the paper of the cabinet drawers. The great majority of 

 the Coleoptera are pinned, though as previously stated they are almost 

 entirely free from that worst of cabinet pests, verdigris. 



Curtis's MS. Register, or Catalogue of the whole of his British 

 collection, is contained in four volumes of quarto size. It is very 

 closely and neatly written in a clear but minute hand on alternate 

 pages, and the writing is unfortunately much faded in parts. It 

 contains notes, in some instances very copious, on nearly every species, 

 embracing localities, dates of collecting, and other items of interest. 



In the following notes on the Lepidoptera, the names and arrange- 

 ment are those under which the insects stand in the Collection. 



Colias europome, Haw. — This is a very fine specimen of the yellow form of 

 C. hyale 5 , and is figured on Plate 242 of the " British Entomology." C. philodice, 

 Godt. — Probably a North American specimen from the old collection of Mr. 

 Plastcad. It is a $ in poor condition. 



Pontia daplidice, L. — One very shabby old 9 example. 



Hipparchia semele, L. — A very pale suffused $ , in good order. H. janira, L. — 

 A striking variety of the $ , the subapical fulvous patch being darker than the pale 

 fulvous ground-colour of the wings, and the ocellus dark fulvous-brown with white 

 centre. The specimen is much tattered and mended with paper. H. tithonus, Ij. — 

 A fine ? , with two supplementary blind ocelli on fore-wing, and two small white- 

 centred black ocelli on hind-wing. H. hyperanthus, L. — Two examples of the ab. 

 arete, O. H. hero, L.— One S in good order. S. arcanius, L. — One (J , also in 

 good condition. This and the preceding are uniform in setting with the rest of 

 the Collection, and have certainly not been re-pinned (See note from Curtis's MS. 

 below). They are figured respectively on plates 205, 205*, Brit. Ent. 



Vanessa antiopa, L. — Four good examples, one with very yellow border. 

 V. urticx, L.- — A very fine example of the ab. ichnusoides, De Selys, but with the 

 blue submarginal spots of hind-wings well marked. 



