The American Museum Journal 



Vol. II. 



MAY, 1902 



No. 5. 



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UR " Guide Leaflet " this month pertains to the Local 

 Collection of Butterflies which is on exhibition in 

 the Central hall of the third or gallery floor. It 

 has been prepared by Mr. William Beutenmuller, 

 Curator of Entomology, and is intended to be 

 used for field identification of the species, as well as in the study 

 of the specimens in the cases. All forms of nature-study are of 

 interest and value in the education of children, but entomology 

 seems to present some especially attractive features. The iden- 

 tification and study of the larger forms of the butterflies, moths, 

 beetles, flies and so on is not difficult, and the habits of observa- 

 tion inculcated by the exercise are of' lasting value to the pupil. 



THE 10 MOTH 

 {Autpinen's lo) Hermaphrodite form, natural size. 



In the collection of local Lepidoptera formed by the late S. 

 Lowell Elliot, and presented to the Museum by Mrs. M. Schuyler 

 Elliot, there is a very interesting specimen of a hermaphrodite 



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