The "SAMUEL STEVENS" Collection. 



Tuesday and Wednesday, March 

 27th and 28th. 



Mr. J. C. STEVENS 



Begs to announce that he has received instructions from the Executors 



To SELL by AUCTION, at his Great Rooms, 38, King 

 Street, Covent Garden, 



On Tuesday and Wednesday, March 27th and 28th, the well-known 



Collection of British Lepidoptera 



Formed by the late SAMUEL STEVENS, Esq., and the result of over 60 

 years' collecting and breeding, consisting of probably over 100,000 speci- 

 mens, and amongst them some wonderful and exceptional varieties of a very 

 large number of species, and long series of many rare and extinct species 

 too numerous to mention. 



TAGj^l^GjptGi^SL SLia.dL Coleo]c>tex*£i. 



From all parts of the World. 



PRESEEVED LAEV.^ : IMAGINES (well set). 



Life-histories carefully arranged and well-mounted in cases, for Museums, 



Schools, &c. 



Cases to Illustrate various phases of Mimicry. 



Living Lepidopterous Eggs, Larvas and Pupse ; Birds' Eggs ; Stuffed Birds' 



Skins ; Shells ; and all other Zoological objects. 



Living eggs, larvae and pupge, of the following species in season : — Papilio machaon, 



Aporia crataegi, Pieris daplidice, Thecla iv-album, Apatura iris, Vanessa antiopa, Melitaea 



cinxia, Acherontia atropos, Sphinx convolvuli, S. pinastri, Deilephila euphorbiae, Sesia 



sphegiformis, Deiopeia pitlchella, Callimorpha hera, Cerura hicuspis, Lophopteryx carme- 



lita, Catocala fraxini, Geometra papilionaria, Lygris reticulata, &c. 



, The Editor of The EntomologisV s Record writes: — "I know nothing in this particular 

 direction so well-suited for educational purposes as your excellently mounted ' Lifehistories 

 of Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, &c.' One could wish that there were three or four typical 

 oases in every Primary and Secondary School in Europe. Certainly everyone engaged 

 , in educational work, in the British Isles at least, would use these cases if they knew of 

 them." Send for List to — 



ARNOLD V0EL5CH0W, Schwerin, Mecklenburg, Germany. 



The British Noctuse and their Varieties. 



(COMPLETE IN 4 VOLS.), 

 Price Seven Shillings per Volume (to be had separately). 



The four volumes comprise the most complete text-book ever issued on the Noctuides. 

 It contains critical notes on the synonymy, the original type descriptions (or descriptions 

 of the original figures) of every British species, the type descriptions of all known 

 Tarieties of each British species, tabulated diagnoses and short descriptions of the various 

 phases of variation of the more polymorphic species ; all the data known concerning the 

 rare and reputed British species. Complete notes on the lines of development of the 

 general variation observed in the various families and genera. The geographical range 

 of the various species and their varieties, as well as special notes by lepidopterists who 

 hare paid particular attention to certain species. 



The first subscription list comprised some 200 of our leading British lepidopteriats. 

 The work is invaluable to all working collectors who want the latest information on this 

 group. Contains large quantities of material collected from foreign magazines and the 

 |Sirorks of old British authors, arranged in connection with each species, and not to be 

 |ound in any other published work. 

 Eo be obtained from H. £. PAGE, " Bertrose," Gellatly Road, Hatcham, S.E. 



