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SOME NOTES 0^ THE LEPIDOPTERA 



OF THE "DALE COLLECTION" OF BRITISH 



INSECTS, 

 NOW IN THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY MUSEUM. 



BY 



JAMES J. WALKER, M.A., R.N., F.L.S. 



/ 



Reprinted from "The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine," 2nd Series, Vol. xviii. 



I.— RHOPALOCERA. 



In the history of British Entomology during the second quarter 

 of the nineteenth century, three names — those of James Francis 

 Stephens, John Curtis, and James Charles Dale — stand pre-eminent ; 

 and the great collections of all Orders of our indigenous insects, 

 formed by these pioneers of our Science, fortunately still exist in their 

 entirety. One of these, that of John Curtis, is now at the Antipodes, 

 and thus no longer within our reach, but Stephens's insects have long 

 formed a valuable item in our National Collection ; and within the 

 last few months, the extensive collections commenced by the elder 

 Dale in the opening years of the last century, and since his decease 

 in 1872, continued and augmented by his son, have through the 

 munificence of the last-named Entomologist, found a final and per- 



