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markable specimen was taken in the Mourne Mountains in July ; it was 

 just out of the pupa, and all the dark parts of the fore- wings were 

 suffused with deep rose-pink, while the pale portions were a semi- 

 metallic green ; these colours faded gradually, and disappeared com- 

 pletely in about two months. Of Geometrse, Ellopia prosapiai-ia was 

 common in Donard demesne in June ; Nyssia zonaria, very abundant on 

 April 3rd at Ballycastle ; one female was seen on the 1st ; I failed to 

 find the species either at Whitepark Bay or at Portrush. Boarmia 

 repandata v. conversaria, a specimen of this fine banded variety was seen, 

 and missed, in Donard demesne on June iSth ; Gnophos obscurata, the 

 specimens from Newcastle are very dark ; it occurs both on the sand- 

 hills and on the hill-sides ; Eupithecia indigata occurred at Belfast and 

 E. constrictata at Island Magee ; Melanippe tristata was swarming about 

 Galium on Knockagh on June 7th; Phibalapteryx lapidata — of this scarce 

 species I took five specimens on the side of Divis Mountain on September 

 3rd ; the males were much worn, but the females nearly fresh from the 

 pupa ; P. vittata was as common as usual in the marshes near Belfast, 

 where its food-plant, Galium paluslre, is abundant. — Charges W. WaTTS, 

 Belfast. 



Lepldoptera at Stralbane. — The Scarlet Admiral {Vanessa atalanta) 

 was this season in great numbers all over the north-west of Ireland, a 

 district where in most years it is unknown. The Painted Lady ( V. cardui), 

 which is generally to be found in the same seasons as V. atalanta, has 

 been, as far as I know, absent. I observed a Humming-bird Hawk-Moth 

 {Macroglossa stdlataruni) hovering over a scarlet Geranium in the garden 

 here. — W. Sinclair, Strabane. 



Lepldoptera at Enniskillen. — Lieut.-Col. Partridge gives (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. Dec. 1893) an interesting list of 283 species of lepidoptera from 

 this district. 



IrishCoIeoptera — Remarks. — Mr.Tomlin'sexperiencelastsummer 

 at Port Ballintrae is quite parallel with mine at Courtown : —great abun- 

 dance of specimens in certain cases, but great paucity of species. About 1,200 

 species of beetles have now been put on the Irish list, and new records are 

 being made every year, owing to the recent increase of interest in local 

 entomology. Beetles, however, are distributed with considerable irregu- 

 larity, and it is not easy in the space of a summer holiday to compile a 

 large list for a particular district. For instance, Helops pallidus occurs at 

 roots of bent on the sandhills at Courtown, but I failed to find it after 

 much searching on the sandhills of south Louth ; Chrysomela hyperici is 

 absent from the St. John's-worts of south Louth, but abounds at Cour- 

 town on Hypericu?n dubium and H. perforatum ; Nebria cotnplanata is abun- 

 dant at Courtown, but absent in Louth ; on the other hand Dichiro- 

 richus pubescens and Phalei'ia cadavtrina are abundant in Louth, but I could 

 not find them at Courtown ; —yet the general features of both localities 

 are almost identical. Mr. Tomlin's list contains some interesting species, 

 one or two of which, e.g. Bradycellus harpalinus and Helophorus rugosus are 

 quite familiar to me, but he is hardly safe in taking Canon Fowler's 

 work as a guide to Irish records. It is not quite up to date. Thus 

 within the last four years I have taken various species, such as Pogonus 

 littoralis and Pocadius ferrugineus, not credited to Irish localities by Fowler, 

 Rev. W. F. Johnson, F.E.S., and others, notably Mr. J. N.'Halbert, 

 have added, and are constantly adding, new and valuable records to our 

 Irish list. — H. G. Cuthbert, Blackrock, Dublin. 



MOLL USCS. 



Hyallnia helvetica, Blum. ; An addition to the Irish Fauna. 



— In November, 1892, I collected, at Whitegate, Co. Cork, a series 

 of shells belonging to a form of Hyalinia which did not agree with 

 any British species of which I had seen descriptions. In June, 1893, 

 I sent specimens to Dr. Scharff, who informed me that he had found at 



