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ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES FROM ULSTER. 



BY REV. W. F. JOHN"SON, M.A., F,E.S, 



On December 13th, 191 1, Canon Lett sent me a fine male of 

 Hyhernia defoliaria which he had captured at Aghaderg 

 Glebe, Loughrickland. It is referable to the variety which 

 Barrett ("British Lepidoptera " vol. vii., p. 233) states 

 occurs in Yorkshire, having the transverse bands on the 

 fore wings very broad and dark coloured. I captured 

 another specimen which flew into the house here on February 

 20th, but it was of the more typical form as figured by 

 Barrett {tx., plate 317, figure i). 



On February 27th I received from Mr. H. L. Orr, of 

 Belfast, a female Phigalia pilosaria which he had taken in 

 Carr's Glen near Belfast on a lime tree. The moth had laid 

 •eggs in the pill box in which she was sent, in two heaps, 

 one at the side of the box and the other in the centre where 

 a pin hole had raised the surface of the cardboard. Among 

 the eggs were fragments of scaly tufts, apparently from 

 her thorax, which v/as abraded. The eggs were .75 m.m. 

 in length, of a rather blunt oval, very light green in colour, 

 and having the surface rugose in irregular transverse 

 furrows. 



On March 9th the eggs had turned brown, and on April 

 3rd they turned a deep blue -black. The larvae began to 

 emerge on April 5th. They were black, slightly hairy, with 

 white spots at the sides of segments 4-8 and white hinder 

 edges to the same segments, their length 2 mm. On April 

 14th the larvae showed a greenish tinge on the dorsal 

 surface and were about 10 mm. in length. Now, May 13th, 

 they are 35 mm. in length ; the ground colour is blackish 

 brown with lighter mottlings towards the under side. The 

 head is brownish red with two indistinct transverse yellowish 

 bands. Immediately behind the head is a reddish transverse 

 band. The three following segments have black tubercles 

 bearing black bristles, and the centre of the segments is 

 spotted with red ; the succeeding segments have also small 

 black tubercles like those on the three first segments, but 



