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series of Leucania favicolor, including yellow, reddish ochreous, and 
red forms, were offered in five lots, and made £3 17s. Hight Tapino- 
stola concolor (Hunts) and sixteen Nonagria “neurica”’ (Cambs), with 
other things, went for 23/-. A similar lot of J’. concolor, with twelve 
“neurica,”’ five of which were melanic (from Horning), made 37/6. 
Two examples of Luperina dumerilit (Rainham, 1895, ex Burney 
coll.), put up with sixty specimens of other species, were sold for 
6/-. Six Crymodes exulis from Shetland, sold in couples, realized 
97/6; and four others from Rannoch (var. assimilis), 63/—; two from 
Perthshire and one from Unst made 45/-; five others from Unst, 
with series of abjecta and furva, sold for 46/-. 
A specimen of Hydrilla palustris from Wicken Fen, together with 
an example (ex coll. Hodgkinson), made 20/—; two others, one of 
which was from Cambridge, 20/-; and a pair (female, Ringwood, 
Hants), 16/-. 
The collection of British Lepidoptera formed by Mr. C. H. Schill, 
and also that of Mr. A. M. Smallpiece, were sold on January 26th 
last. In the first-named collection there were four specimens of 
Chrysophanus dispar, one of which, a large female, made 80/-, a large 
male sold for five shillings less; a male (Tugwell coll.) went for 40/-, 
and another (Chapell coll.) 22/-. One pair of L. cwnosa made 30/-, 
and another pair 14/-. An unusually fine male specimen of N. sub- 
rosea realized £5. The most important items in the Smallpiece 
collection were:—Two aberrations of Argynnis paphia, reared by 
L. W. Newman in 1908 from New Forest ova; the male made 40/-, and 
the female £5. A very rubbed black ab. of Limenitis sibylla sold 
for 7/-. Four examples of Leucania vitellina (Kent, Devon, and 
Brighton), 19/-. Ten Caradrina exigua sold at from 1/6 to 3/- each, 
and eight A. alpina (Rannoch) 17/- the lot. Four fine Crymodes 
exulis (Shetland) made 32/6 and 28/- per couple, and eight others 
from the same locality, 46/-. Two Sussex specimens of C. gnaphalia 
fetched 17/-. Of varieties of Abraxas grossulariata, the best five 
brought in a total of 100/6. 
Weare indebted to our colleague Mr. R. Adkin for the following :— 
Yet another sale has been held, the collection of Lepidoptera formed 
by the late Mr. J. Pardoe being dispersed at Stevens’s on March 28rd. 
The specimens were as a rule in good condition, but for the most 
part lacked data. The more notable lots included seventeen speci- 
mens of Polyommatus dispar, which sold for a total of £38 8s., the 
highest price obtained for single specimens being £5 for a fine female, 
£3 15s. for a fine male, and £3 10s. for a fine under side male, and 
the lowest, 16/-, for a rather poor male. A remarkably large and 
fine specimen of Deiopeia pulchella, taken by Mr. W. J. Austen at 
Folkestone, August 14th, 1892, brought 25/-, and two Crymodes 
exulis, taken at Rannoch, £2 5s. Less authenticated specimens 
brought poor prices; thus lots 1, 2, and 3, each containing among 
other species three specimens of Pieris daplidice, realized an average 
of 4/— per lot; eleven Argynnis latona brought a total of 10/-. Two 
lots of fifty “ blues,’”’ each including four Lycena semiargus, sold for 
3/- per lot; while five Deilephila ewphorbie failed to find a bidder 
until linked with three D. livornica, when they were knocked 
down for 4/-. 
