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 IRISH MOTHS. 



The notes on Irish INIoths which have appeared in the Irish Naturalist 

 (vol. iii., pp. 217, 233), may perhaps be made slightly more complete and 

 exact by publishing the following memoranda. The name of Hepiahis 

 hipulitnis Hb., rightly recorded in Mr. Barrett's work as Irish and 

 occurring in Galway, was referred to b}' me in its place in the list, on 

 p. 13 of vol. xxvii. of the Entomologist, as " Abundant and similarly 

 distributed as the former. I have noticed it flying in the sunshine." 

 But by a typographical error the name was not inserted b}- the printer at 

 the close of my notice oi H. velleda. This will be corrected in the reprint. 

 Since publishing my notes on the Cymatophoridi^. I have seen a specimen 

 oi Asphalia flaviconiis taken by Mr. Dillon at Clonbrock, and also received 

 a letter from Mr. Campbell of Derry withdrawing his record of C. or 

 published in the Irish Naturalist (vol. ii., 1S93, p. 22), and stating that the 

 insect turns out to be A.Jlavicornis. This species will have therefore to be 

 added. A second Stauropus fagi was taken by me in Kerry this summer 

 and one at Clonbrock by Mr. Dillon's gamekeeper. Mr. E. Porter also 

 writes that he met with some very small larvce of the same species on the 

 shores of Upper L. Erne this summer, but failed to rear them. None of 

 the larvae attributed to Pygccra curtula taken by me at Galway and Ros- 

 common, and by Mr. Watts in Co. Down in 1893, survived the pupal stage, 

 so that, as those of P. pigra are when full fed very similar, the record of 

 P. curtula requires further authentication. The following species 

 mentioned in the notice on " Irish Moths" as having been added by ]\Ir. 

 Dillon to the Irish list, had been taken elsewhere in Ireland previously, 

 namely — Luperina cespitis, Pericallia syringaria, Eupithccia fraxinata, and E. 

 hidigafa. This summer however he has added to the extraordinary series 

 of rarities already announced, single specimens each oi Leucawa tuna, and 

 OphioJcs luiiaris ; which he tells me were part of the captures of a game- 

 keeper, Frank Mason, at Clonbrock, in his (Mr. Dillon's) absence this 

 summer. In reply to the comment on my having published a few of the 

 earlier Clonbrock captures without giving the captor's name and exact 

 localit}', I would here desire to mention that I know Mr. Dillon at first 

 intended to send a list of them to an entomological journal ; but, on 

 further consideration, decidednotto do so for fear of attracting undCvSirable 

 collectors. Under these circumstances \ thought it better to announce 

 the captures without making public the name of the captor, rather than 

 suppress information of such interest. But when further remarkable 

 additions to our fauna turned up, Mr. Dillon at once waived all objection, 

 and sent a list, with full particulars of his most important captures up to 

 date, for insertion in the Entomologist. 



The Editors of the Iiish Naturalist kindh^ give me credit for carefulness 

 when identifying the Clonbrock specimens, and I can only say that I have 

 used my utmost endeavours to assure myself that no accidental inclusion 

 of continental specimens has taken place. Indeed my sceptical enquirers 

 have occasionally verged on impoliteness, which has been condoned in a 

 manner my own incredulity has not always experienced from other col- 

 lectors. In answer to the stricture upon my having attempted to 



