THE SYDNEY WEBB COLLECTION OF BRITISH RHOPALOCERA. 33 
Dark marginal About 1mm.in About 1mm.in Variable: 1 to Usually exten- 
scalingofhind- width. width. 3 mm., but  sive,andoften 
wings. often extends so muchsoas 
to dorsalmar- to cover the 
gin and fore- whole wing. 
part of wing. 
Wing 
Spots of under- Always six, Always six, Five or six, Five or six, al- 
side of fore- often more or often more or confluent or ways distinct- 
wings. less confluent. lessconfluent. isolated. ly isolated. 
usual .. ¢ 31mm. ¢ 27 mm. $ 31 mm. $ 29 mm. 
2 ? 31mm. ¢ 28 mm. 2 31 mm. 230 mm, 
= maximum ¢ 36 mm. g 29 mm. ¢ 36 mm. ¢ 31mm. 
m g 33 mm. 2 33 mm. ? 36 mm. ? 33 mm. 
® | minimum ¢ 27 mm. ¢ 26mm. $ 26 mm. $27 mm. 
2 29 mm. 2 26 mm. 2, 29 mm. ? 28 mm. 
Breadth of wings Narrow. Very narrow. Broad. Narrow. 
Sydney Webb Collection.—2nd Day’s Sale. December 9th, 1919. 
(Concluded from p. 11.) ° 
This sale comprised the remainder of the Fritillaries and all the 
remaining species, finishing with the Skippers. 
The first insect of note was a dark brown var. of Melitaea athalia 
with markings almost obsolete which realised £12 12s. Another var. 
eos figured in Newman, p. 46, fig. 3, and asimilar var, with many bands 
of distinct spots on the underside fig. in Newman brought £6 10s. A 
third specimen somewhat similar also recorded £6 10s. A Melitaea 
aurinia with broad buff bands fetched £2, and two similar £4 the pair; 
a very dark specimen cost £5 10s. and one nearly all black £7; other 
good forms realised £1 1s. to £2 in lots of 2 to 20, various localities 
being represented. A very fine underside of Melitaea cinxia realised 
£5, and various underside forms from 8s. to 60s. in lots. 
Fourteen Chrysophanus dispar were next produced, but were not 
nearly so fine as the series sold in the first sale and were priced at 
£2 5s. to £8 according to condition. Lot 45 a fine female C. dispar 
with coppery hindwings, a really good variety, was remarkably cheap 
at £10, and in my ‘opinion was one of the best insects in the sale. 
Aberrations of this species are not often met with even in Covent 
Garden. Rumicta phlaeas was represented by a splendid lot of varieties, 
the best realising £12 12s., being a specimen with the black replaced 
by golden brown and figured in Barrett, p. 9, fig. 2e. Another one 
figured in Barrett, p. 9, fig. 2c, with large confluent spots, realised the 
exceptionally good price of £12. A specimen with forewings without 
spots except discoidals, figured in Barrett. p. 9, fig. 2d, went for £7 10s. 
The silvery white (ab. alba) and pale golden coloured (ab. schmidtit) 
aberrations were not in the best of condition, but fourteen specimens 
ageregated £13 1ls. Three fine and perfect pale golden vars. were 
well worth £3 5s. Two rayed and four with hindwings all black were 
cheap at £2; a lot of 11, including five others, realised £5, and a 
similar lot £2.5s. The remaining noticeable specimen with spots on 
forewings absent realised £3 5s. The Chattendenia (Thecla) w-album 
underside with broad white fascia figured in Newman, p. 108, cost the 
purchaser £5, but although in poor condition itis a unique variety and 
of much interest. Two Bithys quercis females with the blue shading 
almost absent, and one with orange spots were undeniably cheap at 
12s. the two lots. Callophrys rubi and Celastrina argiolus were not 
