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only brought 14/- and 15/- each. Lot 18, 2 buff Helice, 4 black 

 bordered varieties and others £1. A series of over 100 (lots 11 1 to 

 114) including Meliloti, trifolii, lonicerce, and filipendida with very fine 

 varieties of each species brought only £\ 6s. od. 



It may be of interest if we also mention the prices obtained 

 for the rarer British species ; 2 Dapiidice taken at Margate produced 

 £2 15s. od. 8 Lathonia £1 16 od. 4 Antiofia £4 5s. od. 



The finest specimens of Dispar brought from £\ 10s. to £6 per 

 pair an unusually large and fine female (not the variety mentioned 

 above) brought £\. Ten others not so fine brought £8 13s. 33 Avion 

 brought £5 2S. 11 Acts £2 2s. 2 Hybrids between Ocellatus and 

 Popidi were sold for £2 5s. A very fine Lineata taken in 1883 at 

 Brighton reached £2 15s. A pair of Scoliiformis, Ashworth's speci- 

 mens, produced £2 2s. Asilifonnis and 2 Spheciformis £2 5s. Exidans 

 brought about 6/- each. Ccenosa about 8/- each. 8 specimens of the 

 old fen forms of Liparis dispar produced £1 15s., a price that would 

 not be given if collectors believed in the British origin of the speci- 

 mens of this species so freely bred now. Bicuspis brought about half- 

 -a-guinea each, Vitelline, a guinea, 16 Albipiincta realized £\ gs. 6d. 

 20 Brevilinea, £2 is. 9 Sparghanii £5 10s. 5 Concolor £1 igs. 2 Lideago 

 (Barrettii ) £ 1 4s. 2 Exirtis £1 8s. Subrosea, now extinct, brought from 

 one pound to thirty shillings each. Erythrocephala 10/- to 15/- each. 

 2 Nigrocincta brought a guinea and a half; 2 Graplialii the same price, 

 and another pair £1 15s. A single specimen of Ostrina, taken at 

 Dover by Dr. Gill, sold for £1 12s. 6d. Lots 343 and 344 including 

 11 Viduavia and 12 Lichenaria brought £\ js. 6d. 2 Perochraria £\ os. 

 One Hevbariata and three Osseata (true) reached £1 6s. Three lots 

 including 21 Circellata, believed to be extinct, realized £6 10s. od. 

 The series of over 200 Russata produced £15 10s. 6d. but one lot of 6 

 specimens reached £3 10s. A similar series of Immanata brought £10 

 6s., but no special lot realized an extra price. Reticidata brought from 

 14/- to 21/- per pair. 



So much space has been taken above that the Pyrales, Cmmbidce and 

 Tortrices must be passed over, only mentioning that the original type 

 specimen of Pvyerella, taken by the late Mr. H. Pryer, on the 10th 

 September, 1870, and figured in the Entomologist's Annual for 1871, 

 produced £2 12s. 6d.— J. E. Robson, Hartlepool. 



