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about, and with some cliflficulty I succeeded in capturing it. It 

 proved to be a recently emerged female Pyrameis cardui, large and 

 perfect, but perhaps a little pale in colour. Such an incident would 

 have been interesting in any year, but seems to me to be especially 

 so at the end of the wet and sunless autumn of 1918. To me 

 P. cardui has been quite rare this year. I saw an immigrant 

 specimen here at 5 p.m. on May 27th, but could find no larvae during 

 the summer, nor did I see the species again till x\ugust 10th, when I 

 noticed a very l)attered specimen, evidently not born in England. 

 A similar specimen was observed about the same time by my brother 

 at Latton, near Harlow. The only fresh specimen I came across this 

 summer was on August 14th in a clover field at Dunstable, in 

 Bedfordshire. — (Kev.) Gilbert H. Eaynor ; Hazeleigh Rectory, 

 Maldon, November 5th, 1918. 



A Sale of Lepidoptera and Cabinets. — On October 29th the 

 collections formed by the late General Seafield Grant and Lieut. -Col. 

 Garden were disposed of at Stevens' Auction Rooms. The more 

 ordinary lots sold, as a rule, at good prices, but anything in the way 

 of a " good variety " appeared to be keenly sought after. Thus, a lot 

 containing some light specimens and some varied underside Melitcea 

 cinxia brought £7 10s. ; an underside Agriades bellargus (adonis), 

 " disc whitish, margin rayed," £6 ; and an " hermaphrodite, left side 

 male, right female," Agrotis puta, also £6. Two specimens of Chryso- 

 phanKS dispar, male and female, in good condition, realised £8 for 

 the former and £7 for the female. But if the insects sold well, the 

 cabinets that contained them brought, at any rate, equally satisfactory 

 results for the sellers. An English pattern mahogany 40-drawer 

 sold for £65 ; a 32-drawer for £39 ; two 12-drawer at £19 19s. and 

 £17 17s. respectively ; and a 10-drawer for £15 15s. ; while three 

 others of various makes and sizes all brought good prices. — R. A. 



SOCIETIES. 

 The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society. — August 'A^nd. — The President in the Chair. — The death 

 from wounds of a member, Mr. C. P. Emmett, F.E.S., was announced. 

 — Mr. Court, of Market Rasen, was elected a member. — Mr. Turner 

 exhibited ' Exotic Moths,' Jardine's Library, 1840, and referred to the 

 portrait and memoir of the great French naturalist, Latreille, contained 

 in it. — Mr. Edwards, Papilio lama from Thibet, and v. plutonius of 

 P. alcinous from Thibet. — Mr. Ashdown, larvae of Noto dontadrovie- 

 darius. — Mr. Barnett, undersides of Agriades coridon (1) with all 

 discal markings obsolete, (2) with markings much emphasised and 

 dark, from Royston, and a pale Anaitis p)lagiata from CoUey Hill. — 

 Mr. Neave, a living Trichiura cratcsgi and three aberrations of Arctia 

 caja, (1) and (2) with discal markings on hind wings mainly obsolete, 

 (3) a yellow form. — Mr. Holden, three aberrations of Arctia caja, (1) 

 a salmon pink form, (2) with discal markings on hind wings obsolete, 

 (3) a rich yellow form, and a Mimas tilice with costal blotclies only. — 

 Mr. Carr, several series of Abraxas sylvata {itlmata) from Chalfont, 

 Wye, and Delamere. — Mr. Bunnett, a very pale Miltochrista miniata 

 from Crowborough. 



