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— realised their full value, £2 5s. Lot 6 fetched £2, and contained a 

 very nice banded form of Aiinjnnis selene. The nicest var. in the 

 ArgynnidfB, and indeed, to my mind, in the sale, was a nearly 

 blade specimen of MeliUm athalia from Abbots Wood. This was by no 

 means dear at £3 5s. There were nine bred specimens of I.cdia ccenoso, 

 all purchased by a Devonshire collector for £4 6s. Lots 46, 47, and 

 48 contained, i7it<'r alia, ten specimens of Bnjophila abjcB, said to have 

 been taken at Brighton. I believe Dr. Sequeira acquired seven, with 

 numerous other things, for 17/- ; and Mr. Hayward, three for 8/-. If 

 these be genuine, it is evidently not a fact, as most of us imagined, that 

 there are only two authenticated British specimens of this rarity, both 

 of which are supposed to be safely located up north. Altogether the 

 collection, with cabinet, realised some £75. Messrs. Stevens also sold, 

 on the same day, four specimens of ChrysopJiamis dispar, all more or 

 less imperfect, which realised £2 2s., £1 15s., £1 17s. 6d., and 

 £1 17s. 6d.— Thos. Wm. Hall. 



Mr. J. E. Egbson's Sale. — The first portion of Mr. Eobson's 

 collection, consisting of the Macro-Lepidoptera (less the Geometr^e), was 

 sold at Stevens's on June 11th. At Mr. Machin's sale unusually high 

 prices had to be noted. In this instance the limit appears to have 

 been reached in the other direction. That the collection was rich in 

 varieties was undeniable. The condition of the specimens was, in my 

 opinion, quite equal to those above referred to. Unlike The O'Reilly's 

 collection, nearly every insect bore on its individual pin a label with 

 full particulars of locality, &c. ; and yet in very many instances good 

 insects were sold for a quarter the price even the most moderate 

 working entomologist would have charged for the mere setting, let 

 alone their acquisition. As usual some vars. of the Diurni fetched 

 good prices, notably a fine Colias hyale (Lot 6), suffused to the central 

 spot and figured in Barrett and Mosley, £4 10s. A fine Lijcana alexis, 

 similar to Newman's figure, went, after a smart competition, for 

 £5 10s, A Vanessa atalanta var. of under side, and upper side red band 

 on hind wings without usual black spot, also figured by Mosley, 35/-. 

 A var. of V. urticce like Newman's figure 4, £4 8s. The gem of the 

 collection was a suffused var. of Anjiinnis a/jlaia, purchased on appa- 

 rently an open competition for £9. Some nice local northern forms 

 of Melitmi artemis, with vars. of M. cinxia, realised £2 15s. A very 

 nice form of A. paphia with dark costal blotch only realised 20/-, a 

 very much inferior price to what a very similar form brought a sale or 

 two back. Against this a specimen of Limenitis sibijlla, with partly 

 obscured band, only fetched 6/-. 59 good specimens of Apatura iris 

 (6), L. sihylla (7), L. (Sijon, and Nemeobius lumia, only 7/- the lot. Two 

 lots of over 100 specimens of L. corydon, L. adonis, and L. alexis, in- 

 cluding some pretty forms, only 6/- the lot. Three Vanessa antiopa, 

 and others, 10/-. A fine picked series of Epinephele hyperanthus and 

 K. tithonus, 6/-. A ditto of Macroylossa bombylifunnis, M. fucifoniiis, 

 M. steJlatarum, and one Chcerocampa nerii, irom Dr. Hunter's collection, 

 only 8/- the lot. Three authenticated C. celerio, with others, 8/-. 

 Four Deilephila yalii (2, Mr. Capper), and others, 8/-. Lulia cicnosa, 

 two pairs, 16/- a pair ; one pair not quite so good, only 5/-. The 

 prominents and Noctua) were, with very few exceptions, almost given 



