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funehrana and five Stigmonota leguminana, sold for £1 2s. ; and a 

 somewhat similar lot having one more each of these two species, 

 £1 10s. Seventy-four Stigmonota, including S. weirana, S. trauniana, 

 &c., brought £1 7s. ; seventy-eight Dicwramjiha, including ten D. 

 al]iinana, eight D. senectana, &c., £1 2s.; sixty-eight EujJwcilia, among 

 which were included fifteen E. flaviciliana, £1 5s. ; and a lot of 

 sundries in which perhaps four Argyrolepia shreberiana and eighteen 

 E. mussehliana were the attractions, £1 Is. A mixed lot of Psychids 

 and Tineids, seven Fumea casta, eleven Dasystoma salicella, five 

 Lampronia pubicornis, and fifty-six others realized £1 6s. ; and 

 another of seventy-nine, in which Solenobia inconsinciella, Bankesia 

 staintoni, &c., figured, £1 2s. ; while sundry other lots, in which some 

 of the rarer Tineids were included, fetched prices of £2, £1 4s., 

 £2 17s. M., £2 2s., and so forth. 



At the commencement of the second day's sale the long series of 

 Peronea cristana, on which the late Mr. Clark had bestowed so much 

 attention, were offered ; they comprised upwards of three thousand 

 specimens. Among the more interesting items were the type speci- 

 mens of the varieties that he described and figured in the ' Entomo- 

 logist's Eecord,' vol. xiii., which sold as follows : — Transversana, 

 ulotana, nigromficostana [ined] , and albornficostana, 10s. the four ; 

 punctana,proxant}iovittana, prostriana, subalboflammana, &nd fuscana, 

 10s. the five ; subchantana, nigrositbvUtana, subfulvovittana, nigro- 

 cristana, and prochantana, 10s. the five ; attaliana, with another 

 specimen of the same form and one of subcapucina (Desvignes), 14s. 

 the three ; masoniana, £1 Is. ; charlottana, £3; nigropunctana, atrana, 

 ochreapunctana, and intermediana, £1 the four ; and merlana, subuni- 

 colorana, nigrana, rufinigrana, and albonigrana, £1 the five. We be- 

 lieve that all these types are now in the possession of Mr. Sydney Webb. 

 The highest price obtained for any one specimen was £3 5s. — for a form 

 between curtisana and charlottana ; while among the other more in- 

 teresting lots were two examples of a doubtfully new variety near var. 

 gumpinana, which realized £1 Is. and £2 2s. respectively, and 

 another approaching var. tolana, for which £2 was obtained ; speci- 

 mens of var. tolana sold for 10s. each, and one of var. curtisana for 

 £2. The series of some six hundred odd of Peronea hastiana was 

 offered in five lots, each containing several named forms, the prices 

 per lot realized being 6s., 6s., 6s., £1 12s. Q)d., and £1 2s. ; and that of 

 Sarothripus revayana, consisting of nearly five hundred specimens, 

 brought 8s., 8s., and £1 10s. per lot for the three lots in which it was 

 sold. The remainder of the Tineina which had been left over from 

 the previous day contained many interesting species, and the lots in 

 which they were contained frequently ran up over £1, the highest 

 price given for any one lot being £2 10s., and the only lot among the 

 "Plumes" which attracted special attention was that in which a 

 specimen of Leioptilus brachydactylus from the Burney Collection 

 was included, which fetched £1. Among the duplicates, &e., six 

 specimens of Ghrysophanus dispar were offered, of which a fine male 

 brought £3 15s. ; a fine female, £4 10s. ; another, £3 15s. ; a male 

 under side, £2 5s. ; and the two others, £2 2s. and 18s. respectively. 

 The sale of the whole collection occupied nearly six full days, and the 

 total amount which it realized exceeded £1300. 



