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Dendronotus arharescena, Dublin- 



Doto fragilis, Clew Bay ( W. T.), Cork and Keny. 



„ caronata, Cork and Kerry, Belfast (G. C. H.). 

 Doris tnconsptcua, Dublin Bay. 



,, pilosa. 



„ repanday Roundstone (E. F.). 



„ tuber culata^ very common in Dublin, and of great size. 



„ aspera. 



,, hilamellata. 



„ muricata, Belfast (W. T.). 



,, Ulidiana, 



,, flammeay Castlehaven, Cork (J. R. G.). 



,, coccinea, 



,, Johnstoni. 

 Goniodoru nodosa, North, West, Dublin (W. T.), Cork (G. J. A.). 

 Triopa clavigera, Labinch, county of Clare (W. T.). 

 .^irus punctilucens, Cork (G. J. A.). 



Polycera quadrilineata, Belfast (W. T.), Roundstone (E. F.), Dublin Bay. 

 „ Lessonii, Dublin (A. & H.). 

 ,, ocellata, Dublin (A. &H.). 

 Idalia aspersa, Bray (Dr. Ball). 

 Ancula mstatay Dublin Bay (A. & H.). 



The Honorary Secretary read the following communication, which he 

 stated he had been requested to lay before the Society : — 



ON A NEWLY DISCOVERED MOTH IN IRELAND (nOTODONTA BICOLORA). 

 BY ADAM WHITE, F. L. S. 



Mr. Peter Boxtchard, of Sutton, Surrey, a collector of insects, of great 

 ability, went, in the summer of 1858, to Ireland to collect moths and 

 beetles. He was engaged on the Ist of July, 1858, hunting for his prey 

 on Colonel Herbert's estate, about five miles from the town of KiUamey, 

 not far from the far-famed Mucruss Abbey. When beating the birch, a 

 curious white moth, entirely new to him, fell to the ground. This he 

 picked up, and, in a state of delight that can only be guessed at by one 

 who is not a collector, Mr. Bouchard killed it, and set it out. 



The body and wings of the moth are covered with a lovely white ; 

 brown and orange spots mark the upper wings ; these two reddish-yellow 

 marks are lined and edged here and there with black, and set off the white 

 of the insect most charmingly. Five black dots mark the upper wing, 

 and the little patch of hair and scales, so characteristic of moths called 

 Prominents, outstand firom the middle of the same wing. Mr. Bouchard 

 worked the locality for more than a week, but without further success. 

 On writing to London, he found that the species was Notodonta hicolora. 

 Continental specimens of it exist in the British Museum ; but up to this 

 it has been unrepresented in the British collection. Mr. Bouchanl parted 

 with his specimen to Mr. Waring, of London. 



