10 THE HNTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
each, according to condition. Two aberrations of Pyrameis cardut,. 
similar to one figured in Newman, p. 64, brought £7 each. A very 
long series of Pyrameis atalanta produced nothing higher than 16s.,. 
there being no striking aberrations. The series of Vanessa io, includ- 
ing forms of ab. belisaria, produced £6 10s., £11, £11, £6, £3 10s.,. 
£1 4s., £4 10s., £4, £2, £2 53., and £12 12s., this last being an ex- 
ceedingly beautiful specimen with green ocelli. A very curiously 
shaded example was sold at an absurdly low price of 10s. Some very 
varied Aglais urticae realised £6, £2 5s., £8, £2, £2, £7, £2 15s., and 
£11. The gem of the series was a light specimen with the black 
markings mostly absent, and was run up to £18. Three good aberra- 
tions of Polygonia c-album realised £2, £3 10s., and £1 7s. 6d. each. 
The Fritillaries now came to the table, and included really 
beautiful forms. Dryas paphia with cells black and a broad band 
through the wings and rayed margins brought £7 10s. Two extremely 
pretty aberrations, one figured in Newman, p. 22, and one similar, 
were surely not dear at £2 15s. and £2 10s. each. A female with dark 
forewings and one with a cluster of large spots on the forewings 
together produced £7 7s. A dark female with suffused spots reached 
60s., and one with bluish spots or blotches on all the wings and described 
as half valesina and halt paphia brought £4 10s. The valesina-like 
male figured in‘ Mosley’s Varieties,’ a rather worn specimen, was 
acquired for £9. The series of valesina did not shew anything out of 
the usual, which was surprising considering the number of paphia 
varieties. Some fine Argynnis cydippe (adippe) now appeared, and a 
very suffused specimen figured in Barrett, p. 28, fig. lc., cost the buyer 
£14. Another with half of forewings suffused fetched £11. Lot 284 
with forewings almost entirely black, produced a sensational first bid 
of £20, and was secured by the next bid of £22 for a Museum. It 
seemed rather a dear purchase. This price, I believe, created a record 
for a specimen of a British butterfly. Another cydippe, greatly 
obscured and with silvery spots at base of hindwings, and figured in 
Barrett, p. 28, fig. 1b, went for £17. Suffused Argynnis aglaia realised 
£2 5s., £4, and £8 each, and a var. charlotta figured in Newman, p. 26, 
realised £8. Hight Issoria lathonia realised 20s. to 40s. in lots of one 
or two, and a variety with three spots in inner margin fetched £2 10s. 
Five cream and yellow or buff Brenthis euphrosyne realised from £2 2s. 
to £8 3s. each, and one light variety with band of large spots near the 
margin £5 10s. A very lovely B. euphrosyne figured as Brenthis selene 
in ‘Mosley’s Varieties,” plate 5, fig. 4, with light forewings and broad 
band on hindwing margins, and one very similar brought £11 11s. each. 
Another almost entirely suffused fetched £11, and other heavily 
marked examples realised £2 2s., £8, £3 10s.. £2 15s., and £3 each. 
A golden yellow Brenthis selene figured in “ Mosley,” plate 5, fig. 2, 
reached £2 10s., and arayed underside figured in Newman, p. 387,. 
£8. Another with tawny forewings realised £38, and one almost 
entirely black upper and underside cost the purchaser £21, the second 
highest price in the sale. Fifteen Chrysophanus dispar completed the- 
sale, and these, which were all very fine and in exceptionally good 
condition, went for prices varying from £5 10s. to £7 for the males, 
and £4 10s. to £12 10s. for the females. A pupa case realised £5. 
The total amount realised by the first day’s sale was about £920, 
constituting I should opine, a record, and there were 3852 lots. 
