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ZOOLOGY. 



INSECTS. 



Thccia betulds In Co. Wexford.— Mr. Moffat in t\\^ Irish Naturalist 

 for October, 1894, comments upon my having omitted Killoughruni Forest 

 as a locality for this interesting butterfly in my ''Catalogue of Irish 

 Lepidoptera. " Nevertheless, if he will refer again to it he will find 

 " Killoughrum Wood, Enniscorthy, Moffat," included in my notice of its 

 distribution ! I was not therefore unmindful of his courtesy, and onlv 

 \\ash that he would send me a local list of Heterocera also. I am much 

 interested to hear oi Nisoniades tagcs having been taken there. 



Wm. F. de V. Kane, Drumreaske, Monaghan. 

 Lepidoptera at Howth In 1894.— On Feb. 'jth^Phlogophora metiadosa 

 and Phigalia pedaria came to light, one of each. At the end of the month, 

 Larentia multisttigaria began to emerge in the breeding pots. The larvae 

 were from eggs laid by a Howth moth in March, 1893, and were easily 

 fed upon Galium of different species. On March 17th, I took Tceniocampa 

 nmnda at Sallows, but not abundantly ; I had not observed it at Howth 

 before, and in Birchall's list it is only down for Killarney. In April 

 I took some larvae of Epunda lichenea which fed upon Primrose, and 

 emerged in due course during September. The Dianthcecice seemed 

 very scarce this year ; even D. capsophila was hardly to be found. 

 On June 30th, I took Venusia canibrica, which is probably the first record 

 from Howth ; Birchall gives but one locality — Powerscourt. In July, 

 Aplecta nehulosa appeared at sugar amid swarms of Xylophasia nionoglypha. 

 In September, A gratis precox and Cilix glaucata came to light. 



G. V. Hart, Dublin. 



BIRDS. 



Woodcocks nesting: in Co. Wicklow.— Lt.-Col. Bayly writes in 

 Zoologist for November, that a note in his diary records that on August 

 3rd, 1866, five Woodcocks, two old and three young birds, were seen by 

 him in the woods at Ballyarthur. 



.MAMMALS. 



IVIarten In Co. Westmeath. — I have found an entry in an old 

 game-book that has been kept at this house since the year 1814, to the 

 effect that a Pine Marten was killed at Knock Drin, in the winter of 

 1845-6. The exact date is not specified ; but it was on some day between 

 October 23rd, 1845, and January 3rd, 1846. 



H. C. LEVINGE (in Zoologist for November). 



GEOLOGY. 



Kitchen Middens, Co. Doneg^al. — I think Mr. Harte, County 

 Surveyor, was the first to draw attention to these in N. E. Donegal, in a 

 paper read before the R. G.S.I. Afterwards they were recorded by Mr. 

 Mahony, M.R.I. A,, of Ramelton, in a paper read before the Glasgow 

 Society. But neither of the explorers recorded worked implements or 

 pottery. Subsequently, when I saw them I concluded that, as in Antrim, 

 the remains of some of the pots in which the water was loaded ought to 

 be found. I carefully searched, but found none. It is therefore extremely 

 interesting to me to learn that Mr. Welch has been more successful. I 

 hope he will follow up his find with worked implements, as they ought 

 to be there similarly as in the Kitchen Middens of S. W, Donegal, 



G. H. KiNAHAN, Fairview, Dublin. 



