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Bournemouth, the Isle of Portland, and the Chesil Beach, in the 
counties of Hants and Dorset’’; whilst I find no mention of it in 
the ‘Victoria County History of Devonshire.’ — C. GRANVILLE 
CuuTTEeRBUCK, F.E.S.; Heathside, Heathville Road, Gloucester, 
March 15th, 1909. 
Recent SAEs oF LerrporTErA At “STEVENS’s.”—The first por- 
tion of the valuable collection formed by the late T. Maddison, Esq., 
of Durham, was offered in six hundred lots on February 23rd and 24th 
last. It embraced a large number of aberrations, and for many of 
these there was keen competition among bidders. Thirteen varieties 
alone realized a total of £103, made up as under:— 
Gonepteryx rhamm, a specimen with the dise of the wings of a 
dull orange colour. £6 10s. 
A superb rayed variety of Argyninis paphia, female; fore wings, 
except base, very dark and suffused, the under side of hind wings 
with base and margins silvery, central fascia green (New Forest, 
July, 1899). £8. 
A female of A. aglava; hind wings with broad dark bands, from 
which rays extend to margin (from the Linnean coll.). £9 10s. 
A. ewphrosyne.—A unicolorous tawny orange var.; dark markings 
obsolete, except at base of wings (Abbot’s Wood, 1897). £9. 
Melitea athalia.—A very unusual aberration; obscure, with 
central band of pale spots on under side of hind wings; (Abbot's 
Wood). &9. 
A black variety of Vanessa antiopa, with outer costal blotch obso- 
lete (Sherburn, August, 1892). £7. 
A remarkable aberration of Vanessa polychloros ; margin irrorated, 
costal blotches united (New Forest, June, 1902). £7 10s. 
A very fine dark variety of Apatwra wis; white markings almost 
absent (from the Stevens coll.). £7. 
The fine aberration of Epinephele tithonus figured in the ‘ Ento- 
mologist’ for October, 1897. £8 10s. 
A golden brown male specimen of H. zanira (Polegate, June ; 
Entom. xviii. 320). £6. 
A specimen of Arctia cara, with the fore wings brown shading to 
lighter, and the hind wings entirely deep yellow (bred, Liverpool, 
1905), secured the highest bid of the sale, £13. 
An exceptionally dark aberration of A. caza, with the hind wings 
almost entirely shiny black (from Mason’s coll.). £6. 
A black male Dicranwra vinula (Scarborough, 1898), with two 
other aberrations of the same species. £6. 
(To be concluded.) 
CAPTURES AND FIELD REPORTS. 
Larv# or Leproprera In NovemBer. —Is it a recognized 
entomological device for collecting larvz in autumn to beat the heaps 
of bracken cut for fodder over a tray? By doing so in November last 
year I took an extraordinary number of larve, including about four 
hundred Phragmatobia fuliginosa, and some Parasemia plantagins, 
