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Hulst's type, and had already labelled it " var. fmnosus, Hulst," 

 when, suspecting something wrong, I questioned Mr. Bowrey, 

 who obtained it, and he told me at once that it had been changed 

 in the ammonia bottle, and was, when caught, quite an ordinary 

 specimen ! It had been put into the cabinet by mistake. 



At the British Museum I saw a coloured drawing of a butterfly 

 caught by Capt. C. H. Whitaker at Newcastle, Jamaica, early 

 in 1889. It agrees with Callidryas senncB in all respects, except 

 that it is brilliant scarlet. Here, I must confess, I am inclined 

 to blame the cyanide bottle. We have in the museum here, a 

 specimen of G. sennce marked asymmetrically with scarlet on the 

 secondaries, in such a manner as not to leave the remotest doubt 

 that the marking was produced artificially — though no doubt 

 accidentally. 



Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica, August 22, 1891. 



NOTES ON THE NATUEAL HISTOEY MUSEUM op BEEGEN. 

 By the Eev. F, A. Walkee, D.D., F,E.S. 



The collection of insects belonging to the Natural History 

 Museum at Bergen is arranged in two cabinets of fifteen drawers 

 each. In the first of the said two cabinets may be seen, in 

 addition to other specimens, the general collection of Cole- 

 optera, which was very well arranged and named, by a German 

 entomologist, some years since. The two top drawers of the 

 second cabinet are devoted to the Diurnal Lepidoptera of 

 Norway, and have been well and carefully named, as I was 

 assured, and as far as my own knowledge enables me to testify. 

 But the specimens are in several instances old, faded, and 

 indifferent as regards both condition and setting, and not set 

 uniformly moreover. This state of things was fully admitted by 

 the curator present, who stated that their attention had been 

 chiefly directed to higher forms of Nature, such as mammals and 

 birds, and to other lower forms, to the exclusion of insects. 

 Dr. Brunchorst (such was his name) owned to very little know- 

 ledge of insects himself, and said that the entomological curator 

 was absent just then, taking his holiday in the country. At my 

 request he kindly took out a drawer of Neuroptera, which I 

 wished to consult in reference to an Mschna I had recently cap- 

 tured, and which on my return home I discovered to be juncea. 

 But such few dragonflies as were represented, and which all 

 belonged to the genus /Esclma or Lihellula, were only named gene- 

 rically, and }iot specifically at all. Whether British species or 

 exclusively Norwegian, Mschna was the only name given. The 



