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decided to call again upon the public to help us, and our " butterfly 

 week " is the happy result. This exhibition of lepidopterous insects, 

 though specially meant for the uninitiated and therefore abounding in 

 beautiful exotics, was none the less extremely interesting to the local 

 wielders of the green net. The room which is about 70 by 35ft was 

 tastefully decorated. All around three sides of it were sloping stands 

 covered with drawers placed at a convenient angle and at a convenient 

 height for observation. Down the centre of the room were inverted "V" 

 stands similarly laden, and the ends of these " V" stands were so cut 

 as to admit of breeding cases of living larvae being exhibited. The 

 walls were covered with photographs, and with prints and zoological 

 specimens lent by the Zoological Society. Here and there were to be 

 seen, what are called "tableaux," that is, big show cases filled with 

 heteroclite, heterogeneous insects, fearfully and awfully arranged in 

 the shape of flowers or geometrical figures, forming a heterodox whole 

 to make women wonder and children gaze with bated breath. 



The drawers that attracted the public most were those supplied by 

 Messrs. Friihstorfer and Oberthiir. The former of these gentlemen 

 exhibited 26 large drawers, each of which contained a splendid series 

 of one or other of the " show " insects. The first two of these drawers, 

 taking them in order as we entered the room, were filled with thirty 

 Papilio bluinei and twenty P. aegeua from different localities. Thirty 

 magnificent specimens of Tcinopalpus iwperialis filled the next, then 

 came cases of those gloomy looking savages, P. payeni, followed by 

 Hebomoia glaiicippe and about a hundred Tachyris nero, with many 

 interesting varieties and aberrations. The next drawer, filled with 

 livias pyrene, about 130 of them, was particularly worthy of interest on 

 account of a beautiful gynandromorphic specimen having right fore- 

 wing and left hindwing g- , left forewing and right hindwing $ , a 

 perfect example of "X" gynandromorphism. Drawers filled with 

 series of Het^tia, Ideopsis, Euploea, Jachyris, Kallima paralecta, 

 Hypolimnas, P/dnopalpa, StichopJuJiahna frulistorferi, Caligo and 

 Zeuxidia, completed Mr. Friihstorfer's really splendid show. M. 

 Charles Oberthiir had most kindly sent from Eennes fourteen drawers, 

 including some fine Omithoptera, to wit, 0. alexandrae, 0. paradisea, 

 0. schoenberc/ia, 0. meridionalis, 0. victoriae, 0, regis, 0, chimaera, 

 0. croesHs (12), 0. priainus, O. urvilUana, and 0. troyana. To these 

 succeeded drawers of the most beautiful of the Morphos. Among some 

 Satyrids was a wonderful specimen of Zelotypia stacyi, to see which, 

 in my opinion, it was well worth the eight hours' journey from Stafa 

 to Geneva. With Mr. Morton's insects were some fine Satyrids and 

 a very beautiful specimen of P. iveiskei. 



Dr. Keverdin showed long series of Swiss and other Hesperids, 

 with numerous photographs of the male genitalia of forty-six species, 

 including ten varieties of Hesperia alveus. Highly interesting were 

 photographs proving clearly that H. nmlnae, li. melotis and Kambur's 

 H.J'ritilhun (generally confounded with H. malvae), are all distinct 

 species. Thanks to these photos we can assert that Gegenes lefehvrii 

 is distinct from G. nostradamus, Erynnis boeticus from E. althaeae, and 

 H. sibirica from H. andromedae. Dr. Eeverdin's work with the 

 genitalia of these butterflies is doubtless of the greatest scientific 

 value. He has grouped his Skippers according to their genitalia, and 

 they all fall into very natural groups. The only revolutionary group 



