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Lot 157, a single female, £i lOs. ; whilst the last pair, from Lord 

 Walsingham, and which the writer considered the j)ick of the lot, he 

 obtained for £i 6s. A nice series of six Folia nigrocincta fetched £2 5s. ; 

 whilst eight good DiantJiaicia albvnacnla, and a beautiful form of Folia 

 chi var. olivacea, with others, brought only 5/-. Eight good Xylina 

 confurmis went Doverwards for £'d 7s., whilst the nine Cucullia 

 (jmq)halu were purchased by one gentleman for £8 10s. A Cato- 

 cala fraxini, from Mr. Edhiunds's collection, realised 20/-. Some 

 nice Anrpliidasijs betuUtria, including a rather worn buff var., 30/-. 

 Pairs of Clcora vidiuiria 35/-, 65/-, and 55/-. In the emeralds Mr. 

 Machin was unusually strong. A beautiful banded var. Fseudoteipna 

 ci/tisaria, with five Fhorodesuia s)nara(/daria, bred by Mr. Machin from 

 Fobbing, Essex, fetched £2 ; another hve of the latter insect, with 

 Nemuiia viiidata, went for 26/-. The Acidalia ^' circellata" were, 

 in my opinion, poor, and very much like (what, by the way, they 

 actually are) A. straminata, and fetched something like 10/- each. The 

 Fhibalajtteri/x iwlijgrammata fetched 11/- each, a result which must 

 make some of our older collectors, — with whom, I understand, this 

 species used to be more or less of a pest, owing to its numbers, — regret 

 they did not accept their opportunity. — T. \V. Hall. 



Cakadrina superstes, Tr., as a British Species. — As Mr. South's 

 list of recent additions to our British Lepidoptera (Entom. xxvii. 342) 

 has brought the question of the occurrence ot tlie above-named species 

 in this country before the readers of the ' Entomologist,' and as my 

 friend Mr. Hodges has mentioned my name in connection with the 

 subject (Entom. xxviii. 17), I think it will be well to state that I have 

 been thoroughly sifting the question, and that I have to retract my 

 hasty expression of opinion, upon which Mr. Hodges based his note. 

 Mr. Tutt had erroneously referred the Guernsey and Isle of Wight 

 species (i. e., ambigua) to superstes, and it was on discovering this that 

 i made the statement in question ; but on investigation it appears that 

 Mr. Tutt does possess the irue superstes from Deal, and, therefore, that 

 Mr. South's audition of the species to our fauna may stand. In a 

 paper which I read last night before the City of London Entomological 

 Society, I pointed out that Dr. A. Speyer has shown (Stett. Ent. 

 Zeitung, xxviii. 73, &c.) that the male antennae of superstes differ so 

 entirely from those of ambigua, that no confusion between the two is 

 possible. It also seems that superstes is quite specifically distinct from 

 taraxaci, Hb., with which Guenee doubtfully unites it as a variety. — 

 Louis B. Prout ; 12, Greenwood Koad, Dalston, N.E. 



Collecting in Switzerland. — I intend to go to Switzerland in 

 June, for about a fortnight's collecting of Lepidoptera, and should be 

 very glad of any information as to the best place to make my head 

 quarters, or two places for one week at each. — J. Hamilton Leigh ; 

 Brinnington Mount, Stockport. 



CAPTUEES AND FIELD EEPORTS. 



Xantiiia ocellakis, Bork., near London.— Ou October 3rd, 1894, I 

 captured at West Dulwicb, ou a gas-lamp near the College, a Xanthia which 



