DESIDERATA. 



Mr. J. Edwards, Colesborne, Cheltenham, will be grateful to Entomologists, 

 ■who have collected Coleoptera or Hemiptera in Norfolk during the past five yearss 

 for particulars of their captures for present publication. 



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TUESDAY, JUNE 30th. 

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 bred examples with data, many interesting varieties and hybrids. 



The Collection of British Macro-Lepidoptera formed by the late Mr. J. H. Threlfall, 

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 with other properties. 



Catalogues in course of preparation. 38, King St., Covent Garden, London, W.C. 



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