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Abbots Wood £6. A fine suffused Ai/lais urticae produced £1 5s., 

 and another £1 15s., whilst reputed British Envanessa antiopa went at 

 10s.. 15s., 6s., 5s., 6s. (2), 8s., and £1 6s. apiece: two nice Piji-ameis 

 cardui produced 18s., and another [Ent., xiii., p. 73) £12 12s., and 

 yet another (Ent., vi., p. 345) 10 guineas. Aberrations of Limenitis 

 sibi/lla went for £1 12s. 6d., lis., and 8s. each, whilst a dark suffused 

 (J Parari/e uiei/acra brought 18s. Aberrations of Epinep/tele ianira 

 £1 10s. and £1 Is. (Newman's Butts., p. 92); Chri/sophanus dispar 

 went at, <? £4, <? £7 10s., S £3, J £1 5s., $ £4 4s., ? £6 10s., 

 ? £4, $ £3 3s. ^ underside £2 12s. 6d. ; a dark brown ab. of 

 Riiiiiicia pJdaeaa produced £1 14s., another £5 10s., another £1 123. 6d., 

 another 18s., and a set of six others £1 17s. 6d., whilst a gynandro- 

 morph I'lebeius aetjon (Nat. Bint. Brit. Butts., iii.,) produced £1 Is., 

 and a gynandromorphic Poli/owuiatiis icarus, right side ^ , left 

 side 5 , 13s., another left side $ right $ (Elthani, July 10th, 1894) 

 lis. ; a leaden-coloured Auriades thetis (bellan/ns) [Ent. liec, iv., 259) 

 produced £4 6s., and a good A. coridnn ab. .iemisi/nf/rapha £1 Is. ; 

 Ci/aniris seiiiian/Hs produced 6s., 9s., 83., 14s. per pair, 12s. (3), lis. 

 (2 (? s), and lis. (3 <? s). A gynandroniorph of Celastrina air/iolns, 

 right side <7 , left side $ {Xat. Hist. Brit. Butts., ii.,) produced 

 £5 5s., and a little lot of Hesperia lualvae ab. taras 9s. So much for 

 the butterflies. 



The Sphingids fetched fair prices, although it is evident that this 

 part of the collection did not contain the beautiful Smerinthid 

 aberrations we know Mr. Clark possessed. A specimen of Hyles 

 eii/)horbiae (with a history dating from 1844), only produced 6s. ; one 

 Phryxus livornica (Kingsland) 16s., another (Bevendean) 24s.; Hippo- 

 tion celcrio (Hastings) 12s., another (Portslade) 26s., yet another 

 (Walthamstow) 12s.; an aberration of Euuiorpha elpenor (Tottenham) 

 £1, whilst the .Egeriids fetched 10s., 9s., 14s., 12s., 8s., and 8s. per 

 lot. The historical " Romney Marsh," T. vespiformis, taken by " the 

 mythical Mr. Wigan," produced 7s. each, whilst three aberrations of 

 Antkrocera trifolii (one ab. lutesccns) produced 9s., two of A. Jilipeiuhdae 

 10s. The Nolids appear to be valuable now, sets of six X(da ccntonalis 

 and six N. albnlalis going for 25s., 24s., 28s. a tiixie, whilst a white 

 ab. of xV. albulalis produced 19s., and an example of Setina irrorella ab. 

 siynata £1 ; a remarkable (Enistis quadra fetched 14s., and Deiopeia 

 pulchella (Ringmer) 10s., (Dover) 27s., (Dover) 28s., and others 6s., 7s., 

 5s., 4s., whilst an Phichelia jacobaeae, with the crimson replaced by 

 greyish-black, produced 24s. The "lots" of Arctia caia in order 

 from lot 194 onwards, produced 6s. one specimen (194), 18s. one 

 specimen (195), 5s. (196), 6s. (197), ^Is. (198), 4s. (199), £8 8s. one 

 specimen (200), 22s. one specimen (201), £6 three specimens (202), 

 8s. (203), 13s. (204), £1 8s. two specimens (205), 7s. (206), £3 10s. 

 four specimens (207, 208), £2 2s. tbree specimens (209, 210), 3s. 

 (211), £1 (212), 22s. two specimens (213), 4s. (214), 16s. two 

 specimens (215), 7s. (216), £3 7s. 6d. one specimen (217), 4s. (218), 

 4s. (219), £9 one specimen (220), £1 12s. 6d. (221), 3s. (222), £5 10s. 

 two specimens (223), 28s. one specimen (224), 4s. (225), 16s. (226), 

 6s. (227), 10s. (228), 16s. (229), 3s. (230), 3s. (231), 3s. (232), 7s. 

 (233), lis. two specimens (234), 18s. two specimens (235), 7s. (236. 

 237), 10s. (238), £3 two specimens (239), 4s. (240), 7s. (241-244)^ 

 With the exception of the last combination, none of the lots 



