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for 50s. Of Pieris rapae in lots of about fifty, the best, which 

 included a deep cream-coloured female and forms with united 

 spots, made 32s. 6d., but a single very dark P. napi ran up to £9. 

 Aporia crataegi in lots of eight or nine sold for 12s. to 16s. per lot. 

 A lot of forty Leptosia sinapis which included one cream-coloured male 

 made £4, and another in which was a very white specimen with tips 

 of fore wings creamy £3 5s., while a male Gonepteryx rhamni with the 

 costa of left fore wing and most of the hind wing of female coloration 

 sold for the like amount. A female Euchloe cardamines with large 

 blotches of orange colour on each of its fore wings made £8, and 

 another with orange streaks on. its underside 40s. The series of 

 Golias eclusa contained many nice forms but nothing of outstanding 

 peculiarity, and the best, a very dusky specimen, in a lot of two, 

 brought £4 10s., others ranging from 30s. to £3 each, while nice forms 

 of G. hyale, generally in lots of two or more, went for round about two 

 to three guineas. Good forms of Dry as paphia ranged round £4, an 

 exceptionally dark and somewhat rayed specimen ran up to £12, a 

 practically black var. valezina £17, and the only really remarkable 

 Argynnis adippe, a silvery creamy-white specimen, £20. A fine black 

 A. aglaia with rayed borders made £13, and three undersides more 

 or less of the charlotta form, £3, £4 10s., and ten guineas respectively. 

 There were nearly a score of well-authenticated A. lathonia, and they 

 sold for from 22s. to 52s. Qd. apiece, while an exceptionally fine dark 

 specimen ran up to £8. A fine dark Brenthis selene with silver- 

 . rayed underside made £8 10s., and a light black-blotched specimen 

 £6 10s. Pale forms of B. euphrosyne did not exceed £3, but the 

 most strongly black-marked ran up to £6 10s., £8 10s., and ten 

 guineas ; while a remarkable underside with rayed hind wings 

 brought £8 10s. The only really remarkable Melitaea cinxia made 

 £6 10s., and good forms of M. athalia £4 10s., £5 10s. and £6. Two 

 lots, including among other species the one eighteen and the other 

 eleven specimens of Araschnia levana, made only 18s. and 12s. respec- 

 tively. A curious specimen of Pyrantels cardui, described as a 

 "unique white var.," ran up to £16, and a P. atalanta, in which the 

 white markings were much " smeared " with black, to £10. The 

 eleven specimens of Euvanessa antiopa ranged between 30s. and 50s. 

 each. The only two Vanessa io lotted singly were remarkable 

 aberrations and fetched £6 and £7 10s. respectively. A silvery-white 

 Polygonia c-album ran up to £21, and one with confluent blotches 

 made £10 — both specimens were taken by Farn in 1914 ; other 

 forms, varying slightly from type, sold for 25s. to 55s. each. Aglais 

 urticae with confluent costal blotches and the like brought £2 2s., 

 £4 15s., £5, £2 10s., £2 5s., and 16s. each, and a very pale specimen 

 £1 15s. Black Linienltis sibilla made from a guinea to 50s. each, a 

 fine Apatura iris of a similar form £11, and another not quite so good 

 £4 10s., while fine typical specimens of the species in lots of five 

 went from 24s. to two guineas per lob. The feature of the sale was 

 a black Melanarge galatea, which quickly ran up to the record price 

 of £32. A lot which included a pale buff male Eplnephele ianira 

 brought £3, one with a cream-coloured specimen £4 10s., a golden- 

 brown male the same price, and a "white underside" 50s. A curious 

 pale golden-ochreous form of Aphantopus hyperanthus made £7 ; a 



