3i8 The Irish Natu7-alist, December, 



ZOOLOGY. 



Irish Copepod Crustaceans. 



These Crustaceans are of such vast importance to our sea fisheries, 

 since many of our food fishes depend on them for their daily rations 

 that an}' increase in our knowledge of these minute creatures helps us 

 to solve some weighty fishery problems. To a large measure the 

 amount of our country's income is dependent on the habits of the 

 Copepoda, and no one need wonder, therefore, why Mr. Farran, at the 

 instance of the Fishery Inspectors, has taken in hand the study of this 

 difficult group of animals. " ( Record of the Copepoda taken off 

 Cleggau, Co, Galway : " Report on Sea and Inland Fisheries of Ireland, 1901, 

 pt. 2 ) Mr. Farran has observed about 40 species on the west coast, one 

 of which, new to science {Gatanus pileaiiis'), is described and figured. 



Convolvulus Hawk-moth near Belfast. 



I have had given me to-day (September 4) a live specimen o^ Sphinx 



convolvnli in fine condition, which was captured at Knock, Belfast. 



From its fresh appearance I should say it had not long emerged from its 



pupa case. 



H IvAMONT Orr. 

 Belfast. 



Convolvulus Hawk-moth at Londonderry. 



On 8th September a specimen of Sphinx convohndi was brought to me. 

 It was picked up in the city by a lad. It is the first occurrence I know 

 of in this district. 



D, C. CampbeIvI.. 



Londonderry. 



Lepidoptera taken near Limerick. 



When at Limerick on the Dublin P'ield Club Excursion I had the 

 opportunity of looking over a small collection of lepidoptera taken by 

 the Rev. R. M 'Clean in that neighbourhood, and among commoner 

 species the following are worthy of note : — leucophasia sinapis ; Epione 

 advenaria, not rarein Cratloe Wood ; Eiiryinenc dolobraria, several ; Pericallia 

 syrin^aria, three ; Seleina liinaria, one at Cratloe Wood ; Acidalia candidata, 

 do. ; Bapta tenierata ; Panagra peti-aria, numerous at Cratloe ; lobophora 

 haltcrata and L. viretata, not rare at Cratloe ; Melanippe trislata and Encosuiia 

 jindidata, Cratloe, a few. Of the above, Epione advenaria (already recorded 

 by Mr. Carpenter, /. A'a/., vol. xi., p. 19) seems the most important 

 discovery, only one other locality in Ireland being known, but the 

 Pericallia and Selenia are most welcome additions to the hitherto known 



distribution. 



W. Fkas. de; Vismks Kane, 

 Drumreaske, Monaghan. 



