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The Heterogyna (Ants) yielded no new records. The races scabrinodis 

 and ruginodis of Myrmica rubra were common on all uplands and lake 

 shores, the race Icruinodis occurred once in a small colony on Cromag- 

 laun mountain. Lasiits fuscus^ flaviis, and niger were common everywhere, 

 and two small nests of Leptothorax acervomm were met with, one on Cro- 

 maglaun, and one, by Mr. Halbert, at Cloonee. Two nests oi Formica rnja 

 were discovered by Mr. Ragdale in a thicket near the L^ong Range, 

 These were photographed in situ by Mr. Welch, one of the photographs 

 (Plate 8) being reproduced, Another nest occurred on Cromaglaun, 

 near the little tarn, Lough Crincaum. 



Thirty-seven species of Aculeates in all were noted, a rather small pro- 

 portion of the general Irish list compiled about three years ago by Mr. 

 Freke and myself This list, w4th subsequent additions, now contains 

 about 130 species, but the general neglect of the Order by Irish entomo- 

 logists makes its extension by properly authenticated species very 

 difficult. 



Two Hymenopterous insects, also from Kenmare district, but not 

 belonging to the aculeate division, may here be noticed, the well-known 

 giant saw-fly Sirex gigas L- , taken in a wood near the Hotel, and the 

 cimbicid Abia sericea L., from Lower Lough Cloonee. 



Blackrock, Co. Dublin. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY THK HON. R. K. DILLON. 



In a group like Lepidoptera, in which the night-flying insects are so 

 much more numerous than those that are to be seen by day, it is 

 natural that only a few can be recorded in a week's work in a new 

 locality. The late frosts and subsequent hot weather interfered 

 considerably in the natural emergence of many insects. Lepidopterists 

 also, after spending a long day out, require much time to kill and set on 

 their return, and added to that, the natural disinclination to set to work 

 again in the evening, it follows that little night work could be done. 

 Mr. W. H. Johnson set the example and sallied out to sugar, but little 

 came, owing to the cold mist that rose each night. 



At Cloonee, Messrs. Johnson and Neale took Euthenwnia russula, Mr. 

 Varian a dark form of Boarmia repa7idata, approaching var. conversaria, 

 which was taken later by Mr. Stelfox near the hotel. Melitaa aurinia 

 (common form), by Mr. Johnson, Mela7iippe hastata by Mr Neale and 

 myself, and two specimens of Hyria mwicata, rather larger and more 

 suffused with purple, than those I have met with in Galway. Mr, 

 Birchall has recorded this insect from Kerrj\ It has only been recorded 

 from these two counties. 



Pseudoterpna pricinata, freshly emerged, was beautiful and common. 

 Erastria fasciana was found by several of the party in the woods, along 

 the Upper Lake of Killarney. Lyca-na minima, Thecia querats. Acronycta 

 etipho7-bice var. montivaga and a large well-marked specimen of Vemisia 

 cambrica were taken that day. 



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