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and the secondaries were much stained. Lots 10 and 11, wliicli 

 realised £1 12s. Gd. and £'2 2s., each contained a really nice variety of 

 Ai;ii/)i)iis paphia. The first was a fine and perfect female with un- 

 usually conspicuous blotches on the under surface of the primaries, 

 having on the central portion of each wing a large black blotch. The 

 other variety was also a fine female with marginal and submarginal 

 spots forming a series of black bars. Lot 15, £3 10s., was described 

 as a magnificent variety of Vnm'ssa cardui. It was only a fair variety, 

 and required some examination before one detected that the largest 

 costal white blotch was almost absent ; otherwise it was a normal 

 specimen. Lot IG was a var. of Apatura iris. The specimen was a 

 small male with yelloAvish under wings, due principally, in my opinion, 

 to dwarfism caused by bad rearing, and was very dear at £3 5s. There 

 were five specimens of Polyommatus dispar, which fetched £2, £4 8s., 

 £3, £3 10s., and £5 5s. ; also an under side, a doubtful specimen, 

 looking much like the var. nitilus ; this fetched £3 5s. Lot 29 con- 

 tained a tine variety of P. phltxas, perhaps the finest example of the 

 blue spots forming a conspicuous blue bar I have seen ; it realised 

 £3 lOs. Five Li/cicna acis fetched about £1 each, and a series of nine 

 L. arioii from Barnwell Wold £2 lOs. One Deilephila euphorbiw from 

 Mr. Thomas Boyd, 28/-, and eight D. (jalii, from Mr. Tester and Mr. 

 Sidebotham, £3 17s. Gd. the lot. A specimen of Sphinx pinastri, 

 bought by Mr. Bond out of Waile's cabinet, fetched 30/-. Lot 4G, 

 containing twenty-nine ordinary clearwings, fetched £3. Two lots of 

 three and two Sesia scolii/ormis fetched £1 15s. and £2 23. ; ,S'. splieji- 

 foniiis, for two and four specimens from the usual locality, bringing 

 20/- and £2 5s. An orange Zippma trifolii, with other nice forms, 

 cost £3 10s. ; whilst a parti-coloured Z. JilipendidiB, with five Nula 

 albitlalis, fetched £2 10s. Five X. albidalis, with the same number of 

 N. ceutunalis, fetched 27/G ; the next lot, consisting of six of the latter, 

 bringing 30/-. The vars. of Arctia caia were very ordinary, and the 

 prices reahsed for lots of four, four, three, and two, viz., 12/-, 40/-, 

 42/-, and 21/-, looked very much as if some one had an open com- 

 mission to execute. Lot 76, nine specimens of Ocneria dispar, was de- 

 scribed as a fine series of the old fen form — one black var. Here we 

 have the usual error ; the black var. itself is the old fen form, the other 

 brown specimens being the common form. There were ten Lalia 

 ciowsa from Wicken Fen, sold in pairs, the prices being 35/-, 37/G, 

 27/G, 40/-, and 42/-. Eight Lasiucawpa ilici/olia, from Mr. Bonny, 

 also sold in pairs, and being in perfect condition, cost £2 5s., £4 5s., 

 £3 3s., and £3 ; whilst pairs of Drepana sicula brought 18/-, 22/-, 24/-, 

 32/G, and 22/-. Ditto of Bicmnura bicuspis, from Tilgate, 2G/-, 30/-, 

 and 27/G. Eight Notudonta dictcea and eleven N. dodonea brought £2, 

 whilbt nine N. diclaoides and ten A', chaonia 30/-. Cymatophora 

 tiuctiiosu and C. ocularis, four each, 30/- ; four C.fiuctnosa, with others, 

 82/6 ; four C. ocularis, with others, only 12/-. A pair of Leuccmia 

 albipuncta, with a history, £2 ; a single specimen, with four Nunayria 

 brevilinea, including two Vcirs. aliyiea, only 18/-. A nice series of Senta 

 ulvcB, and others, £2 10s. ; and pairs of N. sparyanii and Xylomiyes 

 conspiciilaris, the latter from the Rev. Horton, 30/- and 21/- respec- 

 tively. Three Crynwdcs c.calis an average of 26/- each. The N. sub- 

 rosea obtained record prices : the first two pairs fetched £4 and £5 5s. ; 



