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 DIPTERA. 



BY GEORGE H. CARPENTER, B.SC. 



Opportunity was taken to secure some specimens of this order of insects, 

 which since Haliday's time have been almost neglected in Ireland. 

 Their distribution over the country is so little known, that I make no 

 apology for giving a list of all the species which I have been able to 

 identify, though most of them appear to be common and widespread. 



Tfpula macullpennls, Mg.— Lough Corrib. 



Haematopa pluvlalis, L.— Recess ; Lough Corrib. 



Chrysopa rellctus, Mg.— Recess. 



Therloplectes tropicus, L.— Recess. 



Microchrysa pollta, L.— Recess. 



Nemotelus pantherlnusp L — Gentian Hill. 



Leptis lineola, Fb. — Recess. 



Em pis stercorea, L. — Recess, Lough Corrib. 



Hybos g^rosslpes, L. ) t t, r^..^^\u 



Dollchopus signatus, Mg.| ^^^^'^ ^^^^^^- 



Serlcomyia lappona, L. — Summit of Ben Lettery. 



Pyrophaenaocyml, Fb. — Galway, Aranmore. 



Sphaerophoria nltldlcollis, Zett.— Lough Corrib. 



Echlnoinyia fera, L. \ 



E. grossa, L. [ Lough Corrib. 



Ollvieria lateralis, Fb. ) 



Hylemyla variata, Fall. — Galway. 



Hyetodesia flaveola, Fb. — Gentian Hill. 



IVIydaea urbana, Mg. — Lough Corrib. 



Orygma luctuorum, Mg. ? On seashore at Gentian Hill Otl 



Fucomyla friglda, Fb. J Fuais, at tide- mark.. 



Tephritls leontodontis, D.G.— Gentian Hill; Lough Corrib. 



Urophora solstltlalls, L, ) Ballyvaughan. 



Tctanoccra punctulata, Scop.) ^ ^ 



Lauxanlaaenea, Fall.— Lough Corrib. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY W. F. DE V. KANE, M.A., F.E-S. 



On the excursion to ReceSvS the captures most worthy of note were as 

 follows. I took a large number of larvai oi Acronycta vienyanihidis feeding 

 on Myrica gale and one on Menyanthes trifoliata^ some of them within a 

 fortnight of pupation. Larvte oi Hadena pisi \i^r^ also very numerous 

 on various food plants. An imago of Agrotis lucernea was taken by the 

 party who ascended Ben Lettery, an interesting locality for this coast- 

 loving species. Mr. Wolfe of Skibbereeu was fortunate in securing a 

 nice specimen of the rare and local Selidosetna ericetaria. I collected some 

 very striking forms of Camptogramma bilineata on the heather very similar 

 to some in my cabinet from the Killeries. 



