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white-spotted forms, including a few finely blotched females exhibiting 

 partial coloration of valesina, which, so far as I have observed, is absent m 

 the males, but Mr. J. W. Tutc mentions having seen it in a number of 

 males captured this year in the New Forest. — F. W. Frohawk ; Oct., 1893. 



Autumnal emergence of Argynnis adippe. — Apropos of my note 

 upon a second emergence of A. papliia (Entom. 320), I am now able to 

 record a still more remarkable case, viz., a second emergence of A, adippe. 

 On Sept. 2nd last, upon examining some plants of Viola canina upoa 

 which ova of A. adippe had been deposited the end of last June, I was 

 much surprised to find a few of the ova had hatched, as I discovered one 

 larva in its first stage, evidently only a few days old ; and another in its 

 third sliin, i. e., after the second moult, which remained in that stage until 

 Sept. 27th, on which day it moulted for the fourth and last time; it 

 attached itself for pupation on Oct. 12 th, and pupated the following day, 

 which resulted in a perfect male emerging to-day, Nov. 21st. I may 

 mention that, normally, A. adippe remains for eight months in the egg 

 state, the eggs generally being deposited at the end of July, and hatching 

 the following spring about the end of March. From the advanced state of 

 the larva when I first noticed it on Sept. 2ud, it had evidently hatched 

 about the middle of August, thereby remaining for only six weeks in the 

 egg state. I purposely avoided forcing the specimen during any stage, by 

 keeping it in a temperature similar to that out of doors as much as 

 possible ; and since Nov. 10th the pupa has been placed in a temperature 

 averaging 55°, in company with two A. paphia, which produced one fine 

 normal female on the 20th, and a beautiful specimen of the var. valesina 

 emerged on the 21st, at the same time as the A. adippe. On Sept. 20th 

 I found six more young larvae of A. adippe in first stage. The majority of 

 the ova are still unhatched, therefore will pass the winter as in the usual 

 way of the species. — F. W. Frohawk; Balham, S.W., Nov., 1893. 



The Burney Collection. — On November 21st and 22nd the valuable 

 collection of British Macro-lepidoptera, formed by the late Rev. Henry Burney, 

 was sold at Stevens's Auction Rooms. The butterflies were offered in one 

 hundred and seventeen lots. Twelve specimens of Pieris dapUdice were 

 disposed of at an average of 16s. 9d. each, whilst a single example of this 

 species and a variety of EucJiloe cardamines were knocked down for £3 15s., 

 the variety evidently ruling the bidding in this case. Argynnis niobe, of 

 which there were two examples without data, were not much fancied, as lots 

 14 and 15, each of which included one specimen of this species, together 

 with vars. of A. aglaia, only realised 10s. and 8s. respectively. There were 

 twenty specimens of A. latona, and sixteen of these were disposed of in lots 

 of four each, at d£l 12s. 6d., £2, £1 10s., and £1 6s. Two specimens of the 

 last species, with some vars. of A. selene, fetched 20s. ; and two, with a fine 

 snffused marked example of A. selene, found a purchaser at £S. Four 

 more or less striking, varieties of A. eiiphrosyne were sold for £3 15s., and 

 two uncommon ones for £b. Twelve specimens each of Melitcea athalia 

 and M. aiirinia, including an almost black example of the former species 

 and one or two unimportant aberrations of the latter, fetched £2 158. 

 Vanessa c-album realised about Is. per specimen. A variety of V. urticce, com- 

 prised in a lot with other specimens of this species, and V. polychloros, was 

 bought for £2 15s. The price of V. antiopa, of which there were no less 



