20 The Irish Naiiiraliu. t'ebruary. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES FROM DONEGAL, 

 FERMANAGH AND ARMAGH. 



BY REV. W. F. JOHNSON, M.A., F.E.S., M.R.I. A. 



Though I give most of my spare time and attention to the 

 Hymenoptera, I do not altogether neglect other insects, and 

 endeavour to capture or take note of any interesting species 

 I may meet with. The insects noted below were met with 

 here, at Portnoo in Co. Donegal, and at Tempo Manor in 

 Co. Fermanagh. I visited Tempo in the end of May, on the 

 kind invitation of Sir Charles Langham, and had the pleasure 

 of meeting there the Rev. J. M. Brown, who has a parish 

 in that neighbourhood. I spent nearly three weeks in June 

 and the same in September at Portnoo. 



Lepidoptera. 



On September 30th, 1917, Mrs. Johnson picked up a 

 fine fresh specimen of Agriopis aprilina, which was sitting 

 on a stone in the avenue. I was delighted to get this beauti- 

 ful moth, which I had not met with here before. Peronca 

 hastiana, as usual, occurred in a little plantation, which I 

 have made into a hen-run. Every autumn I see one or two 

 specimens in this restricted area, and nowhere else, though 

 there are apparently equally suitable localities close by. 

 On January 7th of this year, on entering the Post Office 

 in Poyntzpass, I noticed a caterpillar on a shelf. I duly 

 captured it and brought it home. It proved to be the larva 

 of Rumia crataegata. What it was doing in such a place 

 and how it got there I cannot imagine, for there are none of 

 its food plants ^dthin reach. At the end of March ^Irs. 

 Johnson made an interesting capture in a very curious way. 

 We were going to Newry by train, and at the station a friend 

 remarked to Mrs. Johnson that there was a moth on her 

 sleeve. Mrs. Johnson very promptty transferred the moth 

 to her hand bag, and when we were in the train told me of 

 her capture. 1 then got it into a matchbox which I for- 

 tunately had in my pocket. On reaching home I found it to 



