246 The Irish Natia'aiisf. [October, 



ZOOLOGY. 



CRUSTACEA. 



Haplophthalinus iviengrei, Zaddach, in Ireland. 



I am glad to be able to report the occurreuce in Ireland of this rare 



woodlouse— only yet recorded from one locality in Great Britain. It was 



taken at Carcumroe Abbey, Co. Clare, bj'the Rev. Canon Norman, F,R.vS., 



when we visited that interesting neighbourhood in Jul}-. Two examples 



only were found. 



Wm. F. de V. Kane. 

 Drumreaske, Monaghan. 



Colias edusa In Ireland. 



Travelling from Clonbrock to Dublin to-day (27th August) I saw a 



number of specimens of Colias edusa — four or five specimens near Ballina- 



sloe, three males on the Roscommon side of the Shannon at Athlone, 



one male at Hill of Down, one male near Kilcock, and two specimens near 



Maynooth. 



R. B. Dii,i,ON. 

 Clonbrock. 



On nth September I had the rare pleasure of seeing at Howth a 

 beautifully fresh male of Colias cdusa. It was sucking the flowers of 

 Lotus corniailatus and, while I watched it, visited no other sort. As it flits 

 from tuft to tuft closing its wings completely on alighting, the protective 

 resemblance is surprising in an insect in which, looking only at cabinet 

 specimens, one would hardly suspect it. 



W. B. Hart. 



Howth. 



Lepidoptera near Londonderry. 



The following are new to me as local species ; I think they have not 

 been previously recorded for this district : — 



Vanessa io. — My sister. Miss A. M. Campbell, captured a lovely specimen 

 of the Peacock on 30th August, at Ballynatena, near Londonderry. It 

 had evidently just emerged from the chrysalis. 



Melitaa aitrinia.—On. 9th June my nephew, F. C. Campbell, jun., 

 took this fritillary at Port Awe, near Buncrana, just at the spot where 

 his father, Mr. W. Howard Campbell, took Heliothis scutosa in August, 

 1878. 



Zygoc)ia loniccrcc. — On 29th June my nephew took among a lot of 

 Z. filipLiidiilLC, a specimen of Z. lonicerce^ at Inch Road Station on the 

 Buncrana Line. 



On 20th May my friend, Mr. Wm. Taylor, saw Theda rubi at Lackagh 

 Bridge, near Creslough, Co. Donegal, and procured a specimen. I had 

 never seen either M. aiuuiia or 7'. rubi in this district, but I believe the 

 late Dr. Osborne, of Milford, Co. Donegal, took both .species. 



D. C. Campbei,!,. 

 Londonderry. 



