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Taniocampa gracilis, Killarncy. 



Dcuycampa rubiginea, Dublin. January and November. 



Asp Hates citraria, Powerscourt, among fern. 



Aspilates gilvaria, Galway. A. G. More. 



Cabera strigilla/ria, Powerscourt. 



Bapta temeraria, Galway. A. G. Moro. 



Macaria lituraria, Powerscourt. 



Dosithea reversaria, Galway. A. G. More. 



Emmelesia ericetaria, Galway and Powerscourt. 



Eupithecia expallidata, Powerscourt. 



„ pygmaata, Howth. 



Asopia flammealis, Galway. 

 Botys fuscali8, Galway. 



„ pandalis, Galway. 

 Jlypena crassalis, Carrick-on-Suir. Dr. Carte. 

 Polypogon tarsicrinalis, Galway. A. G. More. 

 Nola cucullalis, Powerscourt. 



It will be observed that the majority of the species are from Galway. 

 This locality was not selected for investigation from any belief that it was 

 likely to be peculiarly productive ; on the contrary, the district between 

 Galway and Gort, in which most of the insects were captured, is very 

 scantily wooded, and presents a most unpromising aspect to the collector. 

 But the fact that out of 102 species of Lepidoptera captured in the county 

 of Galway during the past summer, 19 species (all of them conspicuous 

 insects) are new to the Irish list, is conclusive evidence of its present 

 very imperfect condition. In my opinion the island is, to a great extent, 

 a terra incognita, and our list of Lepidoptera quite as long as it deserves 

 to be for the amount of labour bestowed on the subject. 



Our list of butterflies is remarkable, both from containing species 

 which might have been expected to fail in Ireland — such as Cratagi, 

 Betula, and tho two Colias, — but still more so from the absence of about 

 six others — Adippe, Polychloro8 t C. album, Selene, Euphrosyne, and Al- 

 veolus — which might have been confidently expected to occur from their 

 almost universal diffusion in England, and to the powerful flight of at 

 least three of which the channel would scarcely be a barrier. 



I suspect all six only want looking for. It will be time, enough to 

 lament the poverty of our Fauna when every nook and corner of the is- 



