94 THE entomologist's record. 



February 22nd and 23rd, 1910. The Geometrids were first offered, 

 and of these some of the Ahraxas i/rossidariata produced good prices. 

 On the other hand, the dark Aberdeen specimens hardly fetched Id. 

 apiece. The ab. Jiavofasciata produced 8s., but an ab. albomarginata 

 (York, July 10th, 1907) fetched JB3 5s. whilst a specimen tinged 

 with brown, and one with the basal two-thirds of forewings black, 

 produced £1 4s. ; an aberration broadly bordered with black went for 

 £2 2s., another with basal half of forewings black, hindwings with a 

 band of V-shaped spots, £2 2s. ; one with disc of forewings orange and 

 curiously blotched with black, £1 Is.; another example with broad 

 black markings, £2 ; and fine ab. varleyata 12s. and 10s. each, etc., 

 were the chief individual prices. The of late years over-looked h'hlba- 

 lapteryx pulygrannnata produced 16s., £1 6s., £1 5s., 16s., £1 2s., for 

 sets of six, according to condition, whilst single specimens of the 

 immigrant Sterrha sacraria produced 15s., 10s., 7s., 5s., and 7s. per 

 specimen. A tine melanic ab. of Ligdia adustata (Bexley, March 25th, 

 1908), fetched £3 3s.; two quite white Emmelcsia albulata brought lot 

 101 up to 17s.; and four aberrations, including a large unicolorous 

 brown Caniptogntinma bilineata lot 116 up to £1 2s. More Phibalap- 

 teryx poly g ram mata (labelled Cambs, 1872) produced 18s., and 12s. 

 for 5 each; whilst Cidaria reticulata sold for £1, £1, 18s., 18s., lis., 

 13 s., for 2; a fine Eubolia bipunctaria with outer half of wings and 

 band near base of forewings black, went up to 5 guineas ; and a 

 specimen of Odezia atrata with margin and fringes white, £1 is. 

 Madopa salicaiis (a series of nine) ran lot 134 up to £1 5s., not much 

 for so long a series of this rare British species. Two examples of 

 Diaseiiiia ramburialis, one labelled (Folkestone, October 12th, 1878) 

 and the other "Burney coll.," went for 12s., whilst there was another 

 " Lines, 1873," in lot 158. We would like to know something beyond 

 what is published about this as a British species. Then there were 

 two Ebulea catalaunalis (one from " Meek ") and one Margarodes 

 unionalis (Gravesend, 1870), the latter, of course, a well-known 

 immigrant species, brought lot 163 up to lis. whilst eight Lemiodes 

 pidveralis, brought lot 164 to 13s.; and three more Margarodes unionalis 

 lot 165, to 12s. Three Craiiibus cerellus (two Hodgkinson's sale) raised 

 lot 168 to £1 Is., and eight Craiubus contaminellus brought lot 170 to 

 17s. One would like to know something also about the four Crambus 

 rorellus from the " Burney coll.," which brought lots 172 and 173 up 

 to £1 2s. and £1 4s. respectively, whilst the four ('rainbuti 

 rorellus in lot 184 went for 7s. One supposes somewhere in England 

 this species is nearly as abundant as " gooseberry moths." An 

 excellent feature of the sale were the prices brought by the Phycitids, 

 which from lot 174 to lot 183 produced per lot £1 12s. 6d., £1 2s., 

 £1 6s., £1 8s., lis., lis., £1 12s. 6d., £1, 6s., and £1 respectively. 

 Four Ditula ivoodiana produced £1 10s.; two Penthina grevillana, 

 £1 4s. on two occasions ; whilst Spilonota pauperana and H. sim- 

 plana raised lot 204 to 16s.; and three Penthina fuligana, lot 206, to 

 £1 2s. ; similarly, P. postremana, eight and five, caused lots 207 and 

 208 to go up to £1 12s. 6d. and 15s. respectively; and a single Tortrix 

 pronubana (Bognor, October, 1908) produced £1 12s. 6d.; whilst 

 Stigmonota legumiitana, S. cugnatana, and i>. ir«»«ia/m, were responsible 

 for lots 226-228 reaching £1 2s. £1 10s. and £1 7s. respectively ; fifteen 

 Eupoecilia Jiaviciliana for lot 237 producing £1 5s.; and E. manniana, 



