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female being paler, but heavily suffused with greenish-black on 

 the fore wings and the inner margin of the hind wings. They 

 vary much more than the males, some being very much darker 

 than others. Beneath, one of my females has the black dashes 

 reduced to thin lines and the marginal spots much smaller. The 

 average size is about 50 mm. I have one abnormally small 

 specimen which does not exceed 33 mm., is very pale and faintly 

 marked, and the spots are greatly reduced in size and number. 



M. trivia. — I took one specimen only of this species, flying in 

 company with didyma at the monastery. 



M. phcehe. — An abundant species from the end of April to 

 June in the ravines near Kukus and near Janes and Armutci. 

 Habits somewhat like didyma, but disposed to fiy higher and 

 further. I have one specimen in which the dark markings of the 

 upper side are much reduced. Beneath there is considerable 

 variation, the ground-colour ranging from faint greenish-white 

 to deep yellow and the size and shape of the markings also 

 varies greatly. 



Polygonia c-album. — I saw one specimen of this insect on the 

 top of a windy hill near Janes in March, 1918. 



Eugonia polychloros. — One specimen of this fine butterfly 

 haunted some elm trees in the churchyard of the village of 

 Armutci for some days in April. I never saw another at any 

 time, but the elm is so abundant in the country it should 

 certainly be more common. 



Vayiessa io. — Two specimens seen, one in June in a ravine near 

 Kurkut and one in March at Armutci. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSEEVATIONS. 



The Sydney Webb Collection. — A third portion of this collec- 

 tion was sold at Stevens' Auction Eooms on Tviesday, February 10th, 

 and again attracted a large attendance of buyers. The portion of the 

 collection offered included the remainder of the Geometers, the 

 Sphinges, Bombyces, etc., the feature of the day's sale being 

 the " Tigers," of which between thirty and forty more or less remark- 

 able varieties were considered worthy of being offered singly. An 

 Arctia caja, a full-sized cream-coloured specimen figured by Barrett, 

 pi. Ixxi, fig. lb, established a fresh record for a single insect at £26 ; 

 a smaller light-coloured example, Barrett, pl. Ixxii, fig. lb, made d£20, 

 and a lightly marked pale variety £15, while the others went from 

 £9 down to 20s. each. The best A. villica, a very remarkable yellow 

 insect with hardly any markings, Barrett, pl. Ixxiii, fig. le, perhaps 

 the best variety in the sale, made £21 ; one with hind wings deeply 

 suffused with black, Barrett, pl. Ixxiii, fig. If, £8 10s. ; and the others, 

 although some of them "figured " specimens, from 45s. to 10s. each, 

 the total realised for the whole of the series of these two species 



