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still alive there we now have clear proof. Dr. Chaster, during our visit 

 there in Sept , 1900, found one alive, and I have seen several other 

 quite fresh specimens. Mr. Tomlin has also 28 good scalariform 

 examples, some rather better than those figured on Plate 5, 1900— one of 

 his shells measures 34x19 mm. — in addition to a number of high- 

 spired and other curious forms. The average Bundoran specimen is 

 16x21 mm. 



R. Wei<CH. 

 Belfast 



Autumn Lepidoptera at Poyntzpass. 



During last autumn Lepidoptera were not by any means plentiful here 

 I sugared almost every night from August 24th to October 31st, but on no 

 night had I any great number of moths at the sweets. Ivy blossom I 

 found even less productive ; some nights there was not a moth to be seen 

 in the flowers, and never did I see more than a dozen moths on one 

 night, though the ivy is one great sheet over the gable wall of this 

 house. In the latter part of August several Heliophobus popidaris flew into 

 my dining-room, attracted, no doubt, by the lamplight. My earliest 

 capture at sugar was Noctiia glareosa on August 24th, and I continued to 

 take it till the end of September. Other captures were N. rnbi, N. xantho- 

 ^rapha, N. c-nigrum, Agrotis sufftisa, A. saucia (a single specimen), A. segetum, 

 HydrcRcia niicaccea, H. nictitans, a beautiful chestnut form; Gonepteryx liba- 

 trtx, Orthosia ferruginea, O. pistacina^ these two species were very plentiful, 

 and exhibited considerable variation ; 0. inacilenta^ Miselia xyac ant hcc, in 

 some numbers; Aporophyla nigra, SihQa.u\M\x\ i&thla.z'k. specimen, unfor- 

 tunately only one appeared ; Scopelosoma sakllitia, Cerastis vaccinii, Calo- 

 campa exoieta, and C. vetnsta, the former of these is much the more common 

 here. At ivy the only capture that need be mentioned is Or-thosia lota, of 

 which I obtained one specimen, a second I took on a table in an inner 

 hall, though how it got there I cannot imagine, as there is no immediate 

 access to it from outside ; perhaps it had been sitting on my lantern. 

 I took Plusia gamma in a window of this house, Thera variata and Cidaria 

 miata fl3'ing about fir trees, Peronea vartegana, Depressaria applana, and Z>. 

 arenella sitting on the trunks of fir trees near sugar, Epione apiciaria and 

 Teras contaminana fl3'ing round the lantern, and CEcophora pseiidospretella in 

 the house. The late autumn was very mild and fine at times, and, as a 

 consequence, some butterflies remained active till very late in the season ; 

 thus on October 13th I saw Vanessa atalanta and Pararge egeria flitting 

 about in my garden, while on November ist I saw Vanessa zirtica flying 

 in a sunny corner of one of my fields, where it was vigorously but unsuc- 

 cessfully chased by some of my hens. 



W. F. Johnson. 

 Poyntzpass. 



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