1923- Moffat Is t/ie Squirrel a Xativc of I relcuid} 35 



to have maintained their existence (if they did maintain 

 it) from the time when the bulk of our native forests were 

 felled until introduced trees began to be planted. 



I think this remarkable boycotting of Killoughrim is 

 almost conclusive evidence that the Squirrels now inhabiting 

 County Wexford are not the descendants of animals whose 

 natural home was in the old Irish woods. 



Dublin. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES FROM ROSTREVOR. 



BY REV. W. F. JOHNSON, M.A. 



I ARRIVED in Rostrevor in the middle of Juno, 1922, and 

 owing to the exigencies of moving, unpacking and settlmg 

 down, I Vv'as unable to do much at entomology, and the 

 wet summer added to my difficulties. In fact I did very 

 little till August. 



I saw the Humming-bird Hawk- moth {Macroglossa 

 stellatarum) early in June, first in Warrenpoint and then 

 in Dr. Evans's garden at Kilkeel. I did not see it at 

 Rostrevor. Hecatera screna was found sitting on a wall 

 on the roadside in the early evening. I took it at Portnoo, 

 Co. Donegal, in 1918.^ It does not seem to have been 

 recorded from Co. Down before. I was very pleased to 

 get Amphipyra pyramidea, as I had not met with it before, 

 and it is rare in Northern Ireland. Mr. Thos. Greer records 

 it from Co. Tyrone.^ The specimen I secured is smaller 

 than those I have from Co. Waterford. 



Cirrhcedia xerampelina I found sitting in my study 

 windov/, to which it had probably been attracted by light 

 the night before. 



Of Coleoptera I have only two species to record, but 

 this is easily accounted ior by the fact that I was not looking 

 for them. I was a little surprised to find Girammoptcra 

 riificornis on Hogweed. I had met with it at Poyntzpass 

 on Giant Spiraea and on Hawthorn. 



Nearly all my captures of Hymenoptera and Dipt era 



^ Irish Naturalist, xxviii. 19. ^ Irish Naturalist, xxviii, 118. 



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