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Continent, and ofifered as "genuine British." It is even easier to 

 concoct false records than to import specimens, and it would be quite 

 impossible for an editor, especially if he was not thoroughly " in the 

 know, "or for au author searching the magazines for published localities, 

 to be able to sift the false from the true records. — A Country Cousin. 

 Oct., 1896. 



S.UiE OF Mr. C. a. Briggs' collection of Butterflies, Sphingides, 

 Zyg.^nides and Psychides.— On October 27th and 28th, the collection 

 of butterfiies made by Mr. C. A. Briggs sold for a grand total of 

 d£420, whilst the Sphingides, Sesiides, Zy'g.i^nides and Psychides 

 p.'oduced just under ^6100. High as the prices ruled, there can be no 

 doubt they would have been much higher had not there been so many 

 forms precisely alike. As a rule, there are not more than three or 

 four men who are willing to pay a long price for any particular 

 form of aberi'ation, and each only wants one or two. Several 

 well-known buyers, whom one would have expected to have 

 attempted to enrich their collections with abnormal forms, were 

 notably absent. Some of the chief prices reached were : £3 3s. 

 for a dark ab. of I'apilio machaon; Pieris brassicae, ab. (described 

 A'nt. Bee, iv., p 122), £1 Is. ; Euchloe canlamineR, 3 , with excep- 

 tionally pale orange tips, £5 ; E. eardcnniiu's, right side male, left 

 female, £4 10s. ; E. canlauiines, right side male, left female, £4 10s. ; 

 E. cardaminefi, right side female, left dashed with male colouring, 

 £3 lOs. ; E. card amines, right side female, left side streaked with 

 orange on upper and undersides, £2 10s. ; E. canlamines, male, with 

 orange blotch in hind-wing, £3 10s. ; (ionopteryx rliamni, right side J , 

 left fore-wing g , with dash of 5 colouring, hind-wing $ , with 

 dash of (? colouring, £4 10s. ; another, left side male, right side 

 female, £5 ; Colias hi/ale, with dark fore- wings, hind- wings with a 

 pale marginal band, £1 Is. 6d. ; i'olias edum, J with absolutely 

 spotless margin, £1 10s. ; a specimen, fore-wings ab. helice, hind-wings 

 typical, £5 ; another, left side and right fore-wing ab. /lelice, right 

 hind-wing tvpical, £3 5s. The prices of Chn/sopJianus dispar were: 

 £3, £5 IDs.', £2 ir,s. £4 15s., £3 5s., £2 lOs., £1 2s., £3 15s. 

 for males, and £2 2s., £3 10s., £5, £1 Is., £2, £4, £3 10s., 

 £1 15s. for females. Aberrations of C. pJdaeas produced £1 7s. 6d., 

 8s., 21s., 10s., 14s., 12s., £2 10s., 12s., £2 5s., and £1 apiece, 

 whilst a broken Lawpides boetica (Andover, Hants, from Elton, 

 Trin. Coll., Cambridge) produced 12s. Gynandromorphous Plebeim 

 aeipn went for 7s., 6s., 6s., 8s., 8s., 22s. per pair, whilst a pale male 

 went for 35s., and other aberrations for 18s. and 14s. Underside 

 aberrations of Polijinnniatiis astrarche produced £1 12s. 6d. and £3 

 apiece, whilst three P. icanm, left side male, right side female, fetched 

 £3 5s., £3 and £2 2s. each, one, right side male, left female, produced 

 35s., and then the price dropped to 6s. (for one), and 8s. and 18s. (for 

 two). Other aberrations of this species produced £1 6s., £1 15s., £3 5s., 

 £5 10s., £1 2s., £1 2s., £3 3s., £5 apiece, whilst aberrations of /'./><'//(;>v/i<.s 

 went for £1, £1 6s., £1 12s. 6d., £4 15s., £1 Is., £2 15s., £1 5s., 

 £2 15s. respectively, others going for £2 15s. (for two) and £6 (for 

 two). Individual /'. corydon produced £3 5s. (right side male, left 

 female), £1 5s., £2 10s., and £1 15s., £2, £3 15s., whilst £1 12s. 6d., 

 £1 17s. 6d., £2, £1 7s. 6d., £1 5s., £2, and £2, for two, were also given. 

 A specimen of i'l/anirix aryinlns (right side J" , left $) went for £3 3s, 



