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obliterated to £10 10s. and £16 16s., while an entirely black Lmeni^is 

 sibylla made £6. Two good aberrations of Pyrameis carditi sold at 

 £7 each ; several Vanessa io, remarkable chiefly for modifications of 

 the ocelli, ranged from 40s. to £11, and one in which the ocelli were 

 greenish touched £12 12s., while the best of the Aglais unices ran up 

 to £6, £7, £11 and even to ^18, this last price being obtained for a 

 noteworthy light variety. If price may be taken as a criterion of 

 merit the Argynnids were the outstanding feature of the collection, 

 an almost entirely "obscured" specimen of Argynnis cydippe fetching 

 the record price of £22, while others of a similar but less pronounced 

 form made £17, £14 and £11. Diffused and rayed A. jMJihia brought 

 £7 and £7 7s. and a very pale specimen £9," while £4 and £8 were 

 paid for streaked and heavily marked^, aglaia. Of Brenthis euphro- 

 syne cream and yellow forms went for 2 to 3 guineas apiece and the 

 more curiously marked forms at anything from £3 10s. to £11 lis., 

 while the best of the B. selene sold between £4 and £8, but one almost 

 entirely black both on upper and underside ran up to £21. Among 

 the " rare " species PonUa daplidice ranged from 16s. for three to 45s. 

 for a fine male; Euvanessa antiopaixom 10s. to 60s.; Issorialathonia 

 from 10s. to 50s., and Chrysophanus disp)ar, of which fifteen specimens 

 were ofi'ered, from £4 10s. to £12 10s. each, and a "pupa case" of this 

 species made £5. The day's sale produced a total of just over ^8900, 

 and we understand that the second portion of the collection will be 

 offered on Tuesday, December 9th. — E. A. 



The Mitford Collection. — This collection of British Rhopa- 

 locera came under the hammer on November 11th. It also was rich 

 in aberrational forms, and many of the more interesting lots again 

 found buyers at distinctly high prices. An underside Argynnis 

 cydijype, in which the silver spots appeared to be collected together 

 into large basal patches, made £11 Os. 6fZ. Various suffused forms 

 of D. pai^liia sold at £2 5s., £3, £3 5s., £4 and £6 each, A remark- 

 able form of Melitcea atlialia, with the markings so diffused as to 

 give the appearance of a brown insect with a tawny band, ran up 

 to £12, but a cream-coloured Brenthis selene made only £2, and two 

 darkly-banded B. euphrosyne £2 7s. 6d. the lot. Aglais urticce, 

 without blue spots in the hind wings, brought £4 10s. Limenitis 

 sibylla, with bands more or less obsolete, of which some half-dozen 

 specimens were offered, ranged from 30s. to three guineas apiece. 

 Three similar forms of Apatura iris brought 21s. where the white 

 bands were narrowed, £3 10s. where they were obscured in hind 

 wings, and £16 where obsolete, while for a fine female with the outer 

 half of hind v^ings pale £5 10s. was obtained. An unusually good 

 example of a rayed underside of Polyommatus icarus made £5 10s. ; 

 Issoria lathonia sold at from 24s. for one to 28s. and 37s. Qd. per lot 

 of two, Euvanessa antiopa at from lis. to 30s. each, Chrysophanus 

 dispar from £5 to £7 10s. per specimen, and one lot of 20 Devonshire 

 Lycaria avion ran up to 55s. — E. A. 



SciAPTERON TABANiFORMis. — A Specimen of this rare clearwing was 

 taken on a poplar trunk close to Portsmouth in July, 1909. Owing 

 to my then ignorance of its value it was not recorded at the time. 

 On the advice of my friend Mr. F. C. Woodforde, who has seen the 



