The American Museum Journal 
Vor, II. MAY, 1902 No. 5. 
UR “ Guide Leaflet’ this month pertains to the Local 
Collection of Butterflies which is on exhibition in 
the Central hall of the third or gallery floor. It 
has been prepared by Mr. William Beutenmuller, 
Curator of Entomology, and is intended to be 
used for field identification of the species, as well as in the study 
of the specimens in the cases. All forms of nature-study are of 
interest and value in the education of children, but entomology 
seems to present some especially attractive features. The iden- 
tification and study of the larger forms of the butterflies, moths, 
beetles, flies and so on is not-difficult, and the habits of observa- 
tion inculcated by the exercise are of lasting value to the pupil. 
THE 10 MOTH 
(Automeris io) Hermaphrodite form, natural size. 
In the collection of local Lepidoptera formed by the late S. 
Lowell Elliot, and presented to the Museum by Mrs. M. Schuyler 
Elliot, there is a very interesting specimen of a hermaphrodite 
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