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Large Emerald Moth and Convolvulus Hawk-moth at Londonderry. 



In July last my uepliew, Mr. S. B. B. Campbell, took a specimeu of 

 Geometra papilionaria in the woods at Kilderry, Co. Donegal, about 5 miles 

 from Derry. This is the first time the species has been taken in this 

 district, as far as I am aware. 



Sphinx convolvuli has turned up again this year. A friend brought me a 

 specimen on ist September. It is only within the last two or three years 

 that I have known this Hawk-moth to occur in our Derry district. 



D. C. Campbei.Iv. 

 lyondonderry. 



Limerick Beetles. 



The Journal of the Limerick Field Chcb, vol. ii., No. 8 (June, 1904), contains 

 a good paper 'by Stanley W. Kemp, B.A., on the Beetles of the Limerick 

 district. The list, which numbers 270 species, is mainly founded on 

 material collected by the writer and J. N. Halbert on the joint Field 

 Club excursion in Jyne, 1903. 



BOTANY. 



Additions to the flora of Co. Limerick. 



During the past season I collected the following plants, which do not 

 appear to have been previously recorded for Co. Limerick : — 

 XLychnis Githago, Scop. — In a field by the Dock-road ; also in the Carey 's- 

 road quarry, Limerick. 

 Galium bo7-cale^ L. — Sparingly on rocks in the Shannon, about one mile 

 below Castleconnell. 

 * Matricaria occidentalism Greene. — This plant which, as pointed out by Mr. 

 Colgan {_LN., xiii., 57), appears to be quite a distinct species, occurs 

 in some plenty with M. discoidea and other aliens in the Carey's- 

 road quarry. 

 leucrium Scordium, L. — One patch, which is quite submerged after heavy 

 rain, by the Shannon, opposite Doonass. It gave me much pleasure 

 to find this, as, though recorded from near Limerick by K'Eogh in 

 1735, it had apparently not since been seen in the county. 

 Ekocharis acicularis, R. Br.— Abundant along the canal at Limerick. 

 Carex xanthocarpa, Degl. (— C. flava X fulva). — By the vShannon near 



Castleconnell. 

 Festtica loliacea, Huds. (= F. elatior X Loliiim perentie). — Bank of the 

 Shannon about one mile east of Limerick ; also near Plassy. 



R. A. PHII.1.IPS. 

 Cork. 



British Desmids. 



The first volume of W. and G. S. West's "Monograph of the British 

 Desmidiaceae " has just been issued by the Ray Society, and will prove 

 invaluable to students of the fresh-water flora. The full results are in- 

 cluded of the authors' researches in Ireland, which were mainly carried 



