THE SYDNEY WEBB COLLECTION OF BRITISH RHOPALOCHERA. 9 
aberrations, fetched from‘5s. to 18s., and one lot, including a specimen 
of deep ground colour, realised 30s. The Aporia crataegi caused more 
competition, and a male with a broad dark colour from the Bond 
Collection realised £3 15s. Another dark bordered male with 7 others 
realised £1 5s. Considering the rarity of aberrations in this species, 
the purchaser of these two lots undoubtedly obtained a bargain. A 
female var. of Pieris brassicae with very large united spots realised 
£2.10s. Minor aberrations and forms of Pieris rapae and P. napae in 
lots of over 20 were sold for prices varying from 5s. to £2 5s. The 
Pontia daplidice prices varied from 16s. for three to 45s. for lots of one 
and two. With the arrival of Huchloé cardamines prices began to soar, 
a pale orange form and a specimen with all the black scales on the 
upperside and underside absent went for £5. Specimens with pale 
orange tips realised 25s. and 60s. each, and a perfect gynandromorph 
was bought for £5. Other gynandromorphic specimens realised 90s., 
80s., 65s., 65s., 110s., and 50s. each, and a specimen with white spots 
in orange, with disc of wings and underside pale pink 120s. A perfect 
gynandromorph of Gonepteryx rhamni was acquired for £9, and other 
gynandromorphic specimens realised £7 10s., £7 10s., 25s., £2 2s., 
£2 15s., and £1 8s. A specimen of Colias edusa with suffused disc of 
forewings and black markings, figured by Newman, was bought for 
£2 5s., and one rayed and suffused with black for £5. A perfect 
gynandromorph went for £9. Lot 88—-Three wings helice and the 
fourth hindwing edusa, was accused of being a manipulated specimen 
and had to be coupled with the next lot. Various forms of this species 
and Colias hyale, in lots of 1 to 16, realised from 5s. to £2 5s. The 
outstanding specimen among the Melanargia galathea was a fine light 
var. from the Harper Collection figured by Barratt, p. 28, fig. 1, c., 
sold for £8 10s., and one with buff ground for £3-.15s. Lot 103 was 
challenged as being a type of a Continental species resembling galathea. 
A really beautiful specimen of Pararge aeyeria, nearly unicolorous, 
brought £5, and a Pararge megera, with unicolorous pale hindwings, the 
ocelli on a fulvous band, was acquired for £5. Another entirely brown 
with clear fulvous disc to forewings was sold for £3 10s., and a nearly 
unicolorous light female for £4 4s. A white female was cheap at 16s., 
-and a curiously marked female, figured in Barrett, p. 32, fig. 1d., from 
the Cox collection, went at the bargain price of 16s. Lot 112 was 
challenged as being a Continental insect closely allied to P. megera, 
and was not competed for. Bleached and pale specimens of Hpine- 
phele jurtina and E. tithonus, in lots of 1 to 22, realised from 15s. to. 
30s. each. A white male of Hipparchia semele and a female without 
spots was bought for £8 5s., and a gynandromorphous specimen, taken 
at Ipswich in 1868, in excellent condition, was acquired at the absurd 
price of 10s. A specimen of Aphantopus hyperantus ab. lanceolata, 
realise £2, and pairs of white Caenonympha pamphilus, 14s. to 18s. 
Apatura iris, with white bands and spots more or less absent, fetched 
£3 10s., £6 10s., £5 10s., £10 10s., and £16 16s. each, and one with 
white bands absent on forewings, in good condition, for the curiously 
low price of 12s, A specimen with buff marking and pale band near 
margin of hindwings, £3 10s. 
Limenitis sibilla with white bands more or less obliterated, realised 
from 8s. to £2 10s. each, and one entirely black, figured in Newman, 
p. 67, £6 6s. Highteen Huvanessa antiopa fetched from 10s. to 60s. 
