STEVENS' AUCTION KOOMS, Estd. 1760. 



IMPORTANT SALE OF 



British Lepidoptera. 



TUESDAY d- WEDNESDAY, 23rd S 24th Fehruanj, at 1 o'clock, 



Mr. J. C. Stevens, 



Will OFFER for SALE by AUCTION, at his rooms, 38, KING STllEET, CQVENT 

 GARDEN, Londorr, W.C, the First Portion of the valuable and extensive 



Collection of British Lepidoptera, 



Formed by the late 



T. MADDISON, Esq., F.E.S. 



Comprising the Rhopalocera and the Sphinges and Bombyces. The collection is p'ar- 

 iiicularly rich in Rare and Extinct Species, pemanka.ble varieties, and Her- 

 maphrodite and Gynandromorphous Specimens. Catalogues in course of preparation. 



Practical Hints for the Field 

 Lepidopterist (Illustrated) 



By J. W. TUTT, F.E.S. 

 PARTS I II & III 



(Interleaved for Collector's own notes.) 



Price 6s « each volume, net, or 17s. 6 if. for the three 



parts m 



Containing about 4000 Practical Hints of the form so well known. 

 Together with 



General and Special Index to Parts I II & III. 



(Containing references to nearly 1600 British species) 



By H. J. TURNER, F.E.S. 



Together with Chapters on 



Preservation, Mounting, and Photographing of Eggs. 



By F. NOAD CLARK and A. E. TONGE, F.E.S. 

 Also detailed chapters on 

 -" The Collection and Conservation of Lepidoptera," "Killing," " Pinning," " Entomo- 

 logical Pins," "Setting," " Labelling," " Holiday Collecting," "Collections," "Collect- 

 ing," "The Egg and Egg Stage," "The Larva and Larval Stage," " The Pupa and Pupal 

 Stage." Instructions on the technical description of " Eggs," " Larvae," " Pupae," etc. 



The whole comprising the most important book on the subject ever offered to the field 

 lepidopterist, and a complete encyclopaedia of Field Lepidopterology. 



Roughly, the number of species of lepidoptera in the whole British fauna amounts to 

 about 2100 species. It was not until the three pirts were carefully indexed by Mr. Turner 

 that it was suspected how wide a field the "Hints" covered, and how comparatively few of 

 the British species, other than the very commonest, received no " hint " as to their mode 

 of capture in one or other of their stages. The long general index shows that the work is 

 encyclopiedic from the field lepidopterist' s point of view ; nothing so complete as the 

 hints on sallowing, light, sugaring, egg-laying, larva-hunting (in all its forms), pupa- 

 hunting, and the various phases of rearing lepidoptera — breeding-cages, treatment, food, 

 «tc. — having ever been attempted. In addition to these points, many chapters, simple 

 enough for the beginner, and yet advanced enough to teach the expert something, have 

 been added, with the intention of suggesting to the field lepidopterist how to use his 

 observations and work, not only to his own advantage, but also to the advantage of 

 entomological science, and the book can be recommended as being of first value to all 

 field entomologists, whilst the chapters on the preservation, mounting, measurement, and 

 photographing of eggs, will appeal to a very large class of entomologists. 



Peak Sir,— Please lorward me a set of FnirticaL Hints, Parts 1, 11, and Jli, for which 

 I enclose Postal Order for 1 7s. 6d. 



Saiiw 



Aiblres.f 



To Mr. J. HERBERT TUTT, 22, Francemary Road, Lady well Road, Br^ckley, S.E. 



