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wings black the same figure ; another in which tlie disc of fore wings 

 was orange and blotched with black, £1 Is., and a fine specimen with 

 broad black margins, £2. Some of the better-known forms, however, 

 did not command high prices ; thus "ultra lutea-lacticolor," with two 

 other varieties, failed to go above 16s. the lot ; two varleyata brought 

 10s. and 12s. respectively ; lutea-lacticolor and subviolacea together, 

 6s. ; flavofasciata, 8s. ; " a very pale variety," 3s., and so forth. Other 

 interesting varieties among the Geometers were a melanic form of 

 Ligdia adustata, which, when offered with the previous lot which 

 had failed to find a buyer, brought £3 3s. ; four Gamptocjramma hi- 

 lineata, including a large unicolorous brown form from Sligo, one 

 with chocolate-brown fore wings, one pale banded form, and a greyish 

 brown dwarf, £1 2s. the four ; a fine black-banded Euholia bij^unc- 

 taria, £5 5s., and an unusual form of Tanagra atrata, £1 Is. Six 

 specimens of Sterrha sacraria, each with full data, realized from 5s. 

 to 10s. apiece, and 15s. was obtained for var. lahda ; forty Pliibalap- 

 teryx polygrammata, put up in lots of six or five, brought an average of 

 3s. 4i\d. per specimen, and twelve Cidaria reticulata, sold in lots of two, 

 from lis. to 20s. per lot, the average price per specimen being 8s. 2d. 



Little interest appeared to be taken in the Pyrales further than 

 that a lot in which nine specimens of Madopa salicaris had been 

 included fetched £1 8s. ; two Diasemia ramburialis, one "Folkestone, 

 1878," and one from "Burney's Collection," 12s.; a lot of forty- 

 three insects, among which were two Antigastra catalaunalis and 

 one Margarodes unionalis, 16s. ; and three M. unionalis, labelled " P. 

 Bond, 1879," with some sixty other specimens, 12s. the lot. But the 

 Crambites attracted a good deal of attention, a lot containing four 

 Crambus myelins bringing 17s.; two C. rorellus (Burney Collection), 

 with fifty-nine other fairly good things, £1 2s. ; four C. viyellus and two 

 more of the C. rorellus, £1 4s. ; but four C. rorellus from the same 

 source, put up with six Galleria cerella and ten Achrcea grisella, made 

 only 7s. Six Epischnia bankesiella, with eight Anerastia lotella and 

 three Epischnia farrella, realized £1 12s. 6d. the lot ; one Cateremna 

 terebrella (C. G. Barrett, Norfolk), with other species, £1 6s. ; twelve 

 Epliestia seviirufa, with some fifty other species, £1 8s. ; a lot of 

 fifty-seven, including Gytunancyla canella and sundry Phycis, &c., 

 £1 12s. 6d. ; five Myelois ceratojiice in a lot with sundry RlwdophcEct, 

 &c., £1; one Trachonitis pryerella (Nottingham, Briggs's Collection), 

 with Epliestia kuhniella and Myelopliila cribrella, £1 2s. ; and one 

 Selagia argyrella (Mason Collection), wdth one Dioryctria splendidella 

 and nine Oncocera ahenella, £1. 



Nor were the Tortrices by any means neglected, and although 

 occasionally a lot or two of a hundred or more of the commoner 

 species might be picked up for three or four shillings, anything out of 

 the ordinary soon made good prices ; thus the lot containing four 

 Ditula woodiana realized £1 10s. ; two lots, each containing two 

 specimens of Penthina grevillana, £1 4s. each lot; three P. fiiligana, 

 with fourteen Sericoris bifasciana and others, £1 2s. ; eight P. postre- 

 mana, in a lot of forty-six insects, £1 12s. 6d., and five in one of sixty- 

 eight, 15s. ; while for the solitary specimen of Tortrix pronubana, a 

 male captured at Bognor in October, 1908, the bidding ran up to 

 £1 12s. 6d. A lot of seventy-nine specimens, including seven Opadia 



