202 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Of var. conjiua, H. S. (following Mr. Tutt's diagnosis of the 

 form), I have a specimen from Tyrone. 



Var. rufo-virgata, Tutt, seems pretty common ; while mendica, 

 Fb., is the commonest variety of the red ochreous group. 



Var. ignicola, H. S., is decidedly rare. I have a few specimens 

 also of the same ground colour, but without any markings, being 

 almost unicolorous. One of them is over one and a half inches 

 in expanse, and has a slight indication of the subterminal band ; 

 the stigmata, which are of the ground colour, are outlined in 

 pale, and the lower lobe of the reniform is filled with a dark 

 shade, which is the darkest marking on the wing. 



Yav. ochreo-vii'gata, Tutt, sometimes occurs. I have two with 

 a strongly marked median band, deeply elbowed in the middle to 

 a V shape. It is a very curious aberration. 



Var. primulce, Esp., is very common at Howth, and elsewhere 

 occasionally found. Often very unicolorous, except the two dark 

 blotches on each side of the orbicular and one spot below it. 



The var. grisea, Tutt, also occurs, but is' very rare. I have 

 two examples (from Toberdaly, King's Co., and Markree Castle, 

 Co. Sligo) which approach Mr. Tutt's var. cceridea, with a 

 lavender-suffused ground colour, the median and ante-marginal 

 bands being well marked and ruddy. There are no quadrate 

 markings. A strikingly handsome form. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



The late Mr. Machin's Sale. — Referring to Mr. C. A. Briggs' no 

 dovibt well-meant but somewhat testy comment on my report of the 

 sale of Mr. Machin's Macro-Lepidoptera at Stevens's [ante, p. 158), it 

 happens oddly enough that the notes on the Diurni (only) were written 

 in collaboration with a well-known specialist of that group. Mr. Briggs 

 has, however, invited me to make a second and more complete exami- 

 nation of the specimens in question. I will therefore, with the Editor's 

 kind permission, defer my reply until I have liad an opportunity of 

 doing so. — Thos. Wm. Hall. 



The O'Reilly Sale. — The sale of The O'Reilly collection at 

 Stevens's, on the 30th of April, once again illustrates the importance, 

 both from an economic and commercial point of view, of having all 

 specimens properly labelled, with full data of time and place of capture. 

 The collection under notice was a small one, and from all appearances 

 had not been added to for several years ; the specimens were in fair 

 condition, but contained no rarities and but few varieties. The first 

 two lots, consisting, inter alia, of five and six specimens of Aporia 

 craUctji, fell to the writer at 6/- each. Had the collectors present been 

 made aware of the fact that The O'Reilly bred all these specimens himself 

 from larvfe he took in Abbots Wood some fifteen or twenty years ago, a 

 much larger price would have been obtained. Lot 13 — containing a 

 female Colias edusa, with nearly spotless margins, and some nice hetice 



