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unknown. To my mind tlierc is no trace of 5. Gcitiii in this striking 

 plant, which is much more closely allied to .S. iimbrosa, whether one 

 ranks it as a species, sub-species, or variety ; and it appears to me to 

 be at least an independent entity. An authentic specimen of S. elegans 

 Mackay in the Edinburgh Herbarium agrees very well with gatherings of 

 my own froni Kerry ; and I feel pretty sure that they are all Geiim x 

 umbrosa forms. 5. hirsuta L. is, perhaps, too near S. Geiim, as indeed 

 Linnaeus himself remarked ; still, I am unable to see any real approach 

 in its characters towards 5. umbrosa, and do not believe that it is a hybrid. 

 In south-west Ireland there is a very considerable range of variation in 

 this group, apart from crosses ; but the extreme scarcity of typical 5. 

 umbrosa, S. Gciim, and 5. hirsuta in the whole country is surprising. 



It may be of interest to add that 5. Geum (normal, or nearly so, with 

 crenate leaves) was found by Professor J. H. Balfour in 1838, near Clifden, 

 Galway ; his specimens arc in the Edinburgh Herbarium. 



Edward S. Marshall. 



West Monkton Rectorv, Taunton. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Obisium lubricum, a False Scorpion new to the Irish fauna. 



On 1 2th October I collected some False-Scorpions inCorry's Glen, Hilli- 

 borough, Co. Down, which were submitted to Mr. H. Wallis Kew, and 

 I have to thank him for naming these. Among them was a specimen 

 of Obisium {Roncus) lubricum (L. Koch), hitherto recorded in the 

 British Islands only from the south and south-east of England. This 

 specimen has been deposited in the National Museum, Dublin. 



Nevin H. Foster. 



Hillsborough, Co. Down. 



A New Irish Moth -Leucania Loreyi. 



County Cork is notable for the rare moths of the genus Leucania, 

 which have been found there in recent years, such are Leucania unipuncta, 

 L. straminea, and L. vitellina. Commander Gwatkin -Williams has now 

 discovered Leucania Loreyi in the same county [Entom. Month. Mag. (2), 

 xxii., p. 282). The single specimen which he found was " beaten from 

 ivy growing on a garden wall about 30 yards from the sea in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Queenstown, on the night of October 6th." This is one of 

 the rarest British moths. Mr. Barrett mentions only one locality, near 

 Brighton, where it was captured as long ago as 1862. (" The Lepidoptera 

 of the British Islands," v., p. 160). On the other hand. the continental 

 range of the species is very wide, and it is common in many European 

 localities. Through the kindness of Mr. Williams, this unique Irish 

 specimen is now deposited in the National Museum collection. 



J. N. Halbert. 

 National Museum, Dublin. 



