42 The Irish Naturalist. April, 



place, small parties suddenly appeared, flying north, the flight as usual 

 being between the cliffs and the tide-line. These parties continued to 

 pass, and when I got to Ballygeary I went to the point where I had seen 

 the birds strike the coast on the 20th inst. and again the flight came up 

 overland to that point from practically the same direction. On this 

 occasion the stream was always intermittent and consisted of Swallows, 

 House-Martins, and a few Sand-Martins, but the numbers were nothing 

 like those seen a week earlier. I found no birds between that point and 

 Greenore, nor did I see a return flight from the north that evening. 



I have records of both Swallows and House-Martins in some numbers 

 about Wexford town, up to and including the 30 th October. In two 

 sheltered valleys close to the towm I found them almost every day that 

 month, but saw none after the date mentioned. 



\\. M. Abbott. 

 Fermoy. 



Some of our readers may remember that two very interesting articles 

 on the autumnal movement of Swallows on the same part of the Irish 

 coast v/ere contributed to this journal in 191 2, by Mr. A. H. Delap 

 (vol. xxi., pp. 65-71) and Mr. H. F Witherby (pp. 143-4). The three 

 sets of observations should be read together and carefully compared. 



■ — ^Eds. 



The Macrolepidoptera of County Tyrone.^ 



Mr. Greer is to be congratulated on the completion of his local list 

 of Tyrone Lepidoptera ; it is undoubtedly the most interesting report of 

 this kind that has appeared since the publication of ?vlr. Wm, de Vismes 

 Kane's " Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Ireland " more than twenty 

 years ago. When Mr. Greer began the study of Tyrone Lepidoptera 

 the county had been but little explored. Mr. Kane had collected in the 

 old Favour Royal demesne and at Altadiawan Glen on the slope of Slieve 

 Beagh in the southern part of the county. Mr. Greer also acknowledges 

 the valuable results of Professor J. W. Heslop Harrison's hoi i lay visits 

 to the district in the seasons of 1909 and 19 10, The present lijt includes 

 records of 331 species, as well as many varieties, and about 90 are not 

 recorded from Tyrone in Mr. Kane's " Catalogue." A pleasing feature 

 is the large number of interesting notes concerning the actual occurrence 

 of the species, accompanied in many cases by notes on their larvse, 

 evidence of painstaking field-v/ork carried out during many years in 

 various parts of the county. 



The butterflies number twenty-two species ; amongst the more 

 interesting are Vanessa io " abundant of late in the district " ; Envanessa 

 antiopa once seen near Trillick, as mentioned by Kane, and one in a 

 collection taken near Cookstown in August, 1904 ; needless to say it is 



1 " The Entomologist," Vol. liii., October and December, 1920, and 

 Vol. liv., February, May, September, November and December, 192 1. 



