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brought £2 ; whilst the third example, with two L. vitellina from 

 Freshwater, only realized 16s. 



The price of Tapinostola concolor ranged at about 4s. per specimen ; 

 there were a dozen examples in the collection. 



The ten specimens (6 male, 4 female) of Noctua subrosea, £37 9s., 

 which gives an average of nearly £3 8s. each. The highest price 

 given for a specimen was £4 15s., and the lowest £2. 



Ccmstis erijthrocepliala, of which four lots each comprising four 

 examples were offered, realized from 16s. to £1 Is. per lot. 



A specimen oi Xylina zinckenii, taken in 1873, sold for 14s. ; while 

 another example, taken in 1865, went up to £1 10s. 



Cucullia rjnaphalii made £1 2s. and £1 8s. per couple; a fifth 

 specimen, with six C. absinthii, produced £1 7s. 6d. 



One example of Thai pocha res ostrina, taken in 1873, realized £1 4s., 

 and two specimens of T. parva were knocked down at 2s. less. 



An example of Ophiocles lunaris, catalogued as taken near Ramsgate 

 in 1874, fetched £1 8s. 



No less than five specimens of Catocala fraxini were in the collec- 

 tion ; one of these, taken in 1842, at Hammersmith, went for 13s. ; 

 another example, taken in Hants (1892), made 15s.; the others sold 

 at from 6s, to 8s. each. 



Five aberrations of Venilia macularia, including three specimens 

 approaching var. quadrimacularia were bought for £1 15s. 



The eleven specimens of (Jleora viduaria yielded a total of over £8, 

 and the ten examples of Boletohia fuliginaria cleared 6 guineas. 



Of the varieties of Abraxas grossulariata, the most striking aberra- 

 tions sold at from £1 15s. to £2 10s. each. 



Fourteen specimens of Phibalapteryx poJyfjrammata were put up in 

 lots of four and five, and brought about 5s. per specimen. 



Six of eight examples of Cidaria reticulata made 15s. each, and 

 the others 6s. apiece ; whilst a ninth specimen (" asymmetrical var."), 

 with a suffused aberration of C. prunata, went up to £3 10s. 



Three pairs of Drepana siciila {harpagula) sold at £1 123. 6d., 

 £1 15s., and £1 17s. 6d. per pair. 



Description of certain Varieties of Peronea cristana. — Some 

 varieties of Peronea cristana are described in the 'Annals and Magazine 

 of Natural History' for 1842 (vol. x. p. 366); but, as this work is not 

 readily accessible to many entomologists of the present day, I thought 

 it might be worth while to transcribe the description of some interesting 

 forms of this very variable moth which were written by " Capucina," 

 alias the Eev. W. Johnson. The specimens referred to were captured 

 in the New Forest in September, 1841 : — 



"The first I have named Capucina; the ground of the upper 

 wings dark brown, with a shade of burnt umber, and an elevated 

 white tuft or button in the centre of each wing ; the head and 

 palpi white ; and the corslet and anterior part of the wings as far as 

 the tuft nearly covered with an incrustation of pure white, with two 

 blotches of the same, and several snow-white dots towards the extremity 

 of the wings; the under wings shining pale brown, not unlike those of 

 its congeners. The second is also a white button ; the upper part of 

 the upper wings a bright chestnut, besprinkled with a profusion of 

 powdery white dust-Uke particles, the blending of the two colours 



