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and James Varley, of Huddersfield, some of the choicest specimens from 

 their cabinets, including the Ch(]erocam,pa Nerii, taken at Hemel Hemp- 

 stead in 1876 ; extraordinary varieties of Cidaria suffumata, Bombyx 

 qiiercus, Polyommatus phtoeas, Arctia caja, Abraxas grossulariata, Galli- 

 morpha dommula, and others. The other Huddersfield exhibitors were 

 Mr. S. L. Mosley, who showed fifty plates of exotic butterflies, painted 

 by himself, &c. ; and Mr. George Brook, who showed a fine series of 

 slides of mounted scales of lepidoptera. It will be impossible to 

 mention even a tithe of the many objects forming the general collection. 

 Perhaps the most interesting of all to us was the magnificent collection 

 of larvae (with perfect insect, &c. ,) preserved and exhibited by the Right 

 Hon. Lord Walsingham. Too much cannot be said in commendation of 

 tais exhibit, presenting as it did to our mind the ideal of what a collection 

 should be, to be both beautiful and educational in the highest degree. 

 Scotch lepidoptera were represented by a fine collection of Perthshire 

 insects sent by Sir Thos. Moncreiffe ; whilst the peculiar lepidopterous 

 fauna of the fens of Norfolk and Cambridge was shown in splendid style. 

 In Mr. J. P. Wellman's rich cabinet we noticed many splendid varieties, 

 including a yellow form of Zygmna trifolii corresponding to the Cam- 

 bridge variety of Filipenduloe ; very variable series of A. prunaria, 

 C. Tussata, T. crepuscnlaria, &c., with odd extraordinary forms of V. 

 cambricaria, A. immutata, S. clathrata, M. tristata, and many others. 

 Mr. W. Harper, the Rev. Windsor Hambrough, M.A., Messrs. Howard 

 Yaughan, Thos. Eedle, E. G. Meek, J. A. Clark, and others also showed 

 capital collections of macro-lepidoptera. The micro-lepidoptera were 

 represented by the rich collections of Mr. Walter P. Weston, Dr. P. H. 

 Harper, W. Machin, and J. Jenner Weir, F.L.S., so well known in this 

 branch of study. Mr. C. A. Briggs showed his remarkable collection of 

 varieties of Polyommatus ; Dr. Battershall Gill, an almost complete 

 collection of the genus Eupithecia. Colias Edusa was in profusion, as 

 befits the time : some of the forms were most unusual, but one with the 

 right side of the variety Eelice, and the left side Edusa, shown by Mr. 

 W. P. Weston, was perhaps the most extraordinary. Exhibitors of 

 exotic species were the Rev. Augustus Walker, M.A., J. Jenner Weir, 

 F.L.S. , A. Swanzy, F.L.S., and many others. Turning to other orders, 

 perhaps the two finest collections of coleoptera in Britain — those of Dr. 

 J. A. Power and Mr. G. C. Champion — were shown ; also the most com- 

 plete collection known of British Curculionidse, by Mr. S. Stevens, F.L.S., 

 besides numerous others. Mr. Frederick Smith contributed the most 

 complete collection of British hymenoptera in existence, the result of 

 forty years' assiduous collecting ; and hemiptera was also represented by 

 Dr. J . A. Power's most complete collection. Microscopic entomology was 

 abundantly represented by the aid of about forty microscopes, by nearly 

 as many exhibitors ; whilst collecting apparatus of every conceivable kind 

 were shown by Messrs. Thos. Eedle, E. G. Meek, Ashmead, Argent and 

 Co., Thomas Gurney, T. Cooke and Son, and others.— G. T. P. 



