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Rooms. The first drawer contains a fine series of the Swallow- 

 tail, one of the largest and most showy of our butterflies, and also 

 of the exquisitely delicate and sweet Black-veined Whites. They 

 both used to occur at Glanvilles Wootton up to the year 1815, 

 when they unaccountably disappeared. One of the most recent 

 additions I have made to the collection is a fine series of the 

 Heath and Glanville Fritillaries, containing many varieties 

 hitherto unpossessed, and including the original specimen of 

 Eos, taken at Peckham by Mr. John Howard in 1803. These I 

 purchased at the sale of the late Mr. Sam Stevens' collection in 

 May, 1900. Of specimens interesting to antiquarians, I may 

 mention a specimen of the Bath White, which formerly belonged 

 to old Petiver, and is almost two hundred years old ; and 

 specimens of the Camberwell Beauty, taken in 1793, and of the 

 Queen of Spain, taken in 1803. 



There is also a fine collection of moths, including a row each 

 of the extinct Spurge Elephant Hawk Moth, Gypsy Moth, 

 cccnosa, subrosea, viduaria, circellata, and polygmmmata, and 

 specimens of the beautiful and extinct small moth, Cerostoma 

 asperella, which used to occur in the Glanvilles Wootton orchards. 

 Of varieties, I possess black ones of the Scarlet Tiger and the 

 Orange Under-wing, and the best series of that most variable 

 species the button moth Peronea cristana, w r hich ranges from 

 black to both white and red. 



Apart from the Lepidoptera the most valuable insect I possess, 

 and probably the rarest insect in the whole world, is Halictophagus 

 Curt is ii, figured in Curtis' " British Entomology ;" and of which 

 my father took a couple at Lulworth and in Portland on August 

 1 5th, 1832, and June i6th, 1840. This variety, with its only 

 British allies Stylops melitta and Elenclms tenuicornis also 

 figured in Curtis' " British Entomology," and both taken in 

 Dorsetshire by my father, have been made into an Order by 

 themselves Strepsiptera of Kirby. 



Another most valuable insect is Hemerobius (PsectraJ diptera, 

 one of the Neuroptera, but having only one pair of wings, which 

 was taken at Langport by my father on June 27th, 1843. This is 



