Important Collection of British Lepidoptera. 



lilR. J. C. STEVENS 



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

 Street, Covent Garden, 



On Tuesday, May 29th, at Half-past Twelve precisely, without the least 

 reserve, the first portion of the extensive 



Collection of British Lepidoptera, 



formed by 



P. M. BRIGHT, of Bournemouth. 



The collection is particularly rich in long series of specimens showing the 

 variations of each species, and contains a great number of rarities and many 



grand varieties. 



On view the day prior from Ten till Four. Catalogues on application, 



post free. 



An illustrated, exhaustive, and authoritative series of articles on |ihe 



BUTTERFLIES of the PALAEARCTIC REGION 



By Dr. HENRY LANG 



(Author of the Butterflies of Europe), is appearing monthly in 



SCIENCE GOSSIP. 



The beautiful Illustrations are by a new Photographic 



process, direct from authentic specimens. 

 Other Entomological subjects in each Number. 



SIXPENCE MONTHLY. 

 Editorial and business communications to 110, Strand, W.C. 



X4e]c>iclo]9tex>£i< a^xicl Coleoptei^a* 



From all parts of the World. 



PEE8EEVED LAEV^ : IMAGINES (well set). 



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



Schools, &c. 

 Cases to Illustrate various phases of Mimicry. 

 Living Lepidopterous Eggs, Larvse and Pup^e ; Birds' Eggs ; Stuffed Birds' 

 Skins ; Shells ; and all other Zoological objects. 

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

 ooria crataegi, Pieris daplidice, Thecla w-alhum, Apatura iris, Vanessa antiopa, Melitaea 

 %xia, Acherontia atropos, Sphinx convolvuli, S. pinastri, Deilephila euphorhiae, Sesia 

 sphegiformis, Deiopeia pulchella, Callimorpha hera, Centra hicuspis, Loplioptertjx carme- 

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



The Editor of The Entomologisfs Record wvites : — " 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 

 cases 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 VOELSCHOW, 5chwerin, Mecklenburg, Germany. 



