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be Panolis piniperda, a species which had not occurred 

 here before. It must have dropped off some of the pine 

 trees under which we had passed and sat contentedly on 

 Mrs. Johnson's coat. It was very sluggish, and I had no 

 difficulty in getting it into the matchbox. 



At Portnoo, in June, I met with a good many butterflies 

 and moths, though the weather at times was anything but 

 propitious. I was very pleased to find Melitaea artemis in 

 numbers on the heathy bogs ; I had reared it from larvae 

 from Coolmore, but never had the pleasure of seeing it dis- 

 porting itself in freedom. Thecla riihi was also abundant, 

 starting up from the heather or flying around the Sallow 

 bushes. I observed several Vanessa io in iine condition. 

 Lycaena icarus and Caenonympha pamphilus were plentiful, 

 and I took a couple of particularly fine examples of each. 

 On the hill which rose steeply from the sea I took Macro- 

 glossa homhyliformis and Pyrausta ostrinalis ; the former 

 rather worn. I met with it also in a bog further inland. 

 Over this hill there were a couple of small lakes and a grassy 

 valley ; here Mrs. Johnson netted a nice fresh specimen of 

 Euthemona russula and I met with others subsequently in 

 the same place. Mrs. Johnson also picked up a nice example 

 of Pygaera pigra, which she found on heather beside a path 

 through the bog off the Dowros road. Eidype hastata was 

 not uncommon, and I took a nice pair in a little ravine on a 

 stormy day. On a heathy bog I took the beautiful Mixodia 

 schulziana, also Eupithecia pumilata and E. virgaureata. I 

 caught a few moths at dusk flying round Veronica bushes, 

 but mostly quite common things ; the best were Hecatera 

 serena, Eurois adiista and Abrostola tripartita. I netted a 

 fine Smerinthus populi flying to and fro quite slowly, close 

 to the front of the house. 



On the leaves of Sallows I noticed what, at flrst, I took 

 to be the dropping of some small bird, but meeting with a 

 bush on which there were quite a number of these objects, 

 I looked more closely at them and saw that they moved. 

 I took some of them and placed them in a glass jar, where 

 they fed up and pupated, and finally, in the end of July 

 and beginning of August, there emerged little white moths, 

 which I found to be Coleophora anatipenella. What I had 



