^20 The Irish Naticratist. [August, 



ZOOLOGY. 



INSECTS. 



Lcucophasia sliiapis near Kildare. 



I found the Wood-white Butterfly in some numbers at a place I was 

 staying at for a few days in the end of May and the beginning of June, 

 about five miles west of the town of Kildare, this year. As this is, I 

 believe, a new locality for it in Ireland, it may be worth recording. It 

 seemed to prefer the open fields, or the proximity of small rows or 

 groups of trees, to the plantations and heavy timber, which I would 

 have thought more suited to it, but where I did not find a single 

 specimen. 



Percy E. Freke. 



Entomological Notes from S.E. Ireland. 



The following list of local insects captured by me while staying on a 

 visit with my brother, Capt. Bonaparte-W3'se, of the Manor of St. John's, 

 Waterford, during some seven weeks, extending from the middle of 

 May to the end of June, may prove of interest to readers of the Irish 

 Naitiralist : — 



IvEPiDOPTERA.--/.t7/(r(7/^//aj^?a sinapis, L. — I took a few of this generally 

 scarce butterfly at Curraghmore towards the end of May and beginning 

 of June. I have recorded the occurrence of this butterfly in Co. Water- 

 ford in the Entomologist, vol. xxx., p. 200 ; also the capture of a single 

 specimen near Mileport, Co. Kilkenny — a new locality, I believe, for this 

 local insect. 



LyciEua ariiiolus, L- — This fragile little butterfly was very common 

 during May in the woods of Curraghmore ; it was quite over by the 

 beginning of June. 



Melitcea aiirinia. — I found this local butterfly, not uncommonly, in a 

 bit of marshy ground near Mileport, in the Co. Kilkenny, adjacent to a 

 small fir-wood. The examples I took seem to be like the English 

 specimens I have seen, with the fulvous patches of all the wings very 

 uniform in hue. One female example, however, would seem to have 

 the chief characteristics of var. pncclara, Kane (vide Entomologist, vol. 

 xxvi., p. 159). 



Vanessa cardiii, L. — I observed this beautiful butterfly very commonly 

 flying along the edge of the clifls near Baginbun Head, Co. Wexford, on 

 the 14th June. I did not meet with it elsewhere. V. io, L. was gene- 

 rally common at Curraghmore and other parts of the Co. Waterford. I 

 also saw a few specimens of it near Mileport, in the Co. Kilkenn}', 

 towards the end of May. V. atalania, L. was much less common. I 

 only noticed a few specimen.s, chiefly in the same localities as the last. 



Macroglossa bonihylifortnis, Och. — I captured a fine s])ecinien of this moth 

 on the 24tli May at Curraghmore hovering over the flowers of Wild 

 Hyacinth {Hyacinthus nonscripttis). 



