I902 Notes, 19 



Some Noteworthy Irish Lepidoptera. 



Sesia formiciformis vf&s inserted by Birchall in his "Catalogue of the 

 Lepidoptera of Ireland," with the note—" Mr. Halliday.— No information 

 as to locality." It is not surprising that Mr. Kane refused the species a 

 place in his recent List. But it must now be acknowledged as a genuine 

 member of our fauna, as Colonel J. W. Yerbury, who has been collecting 

 during the past summer in the South-west of Ireland, took two males at 

 Glengariflf on June 13th. By his generosity they are now in the Dublin 

 Museum. At Glencar, Co. Kerry, he secured a caterpillar of Staiiropiis 

 fa^i, which, having also been deposited in the Museum, has now pupated. 



Epioiie advenan'a has been taken near Limerick by Rev. Dr. R. A. 

 M'Clean, three male and two female specimens having been fowarded 

 by him to the Dublin Museum. This species does not appear in Mr. 

 Kane's List, but he tells me that he has received it from Curraghmore, 

 Co. Waterford. Among other captures made bj' Dr. M'Clean near 

 Limerick, Asthena candidaia, Tephrosia piinctidaria, and Panagra petraria are 

 note worth}'. 



Dianthcecia ccesia, known from the coasts of Cos. Cork and Kerry, has 

 been traced northwards into Clare by Mr. P. H. Grierson, who captured 

 a female near Lahinch. 



Gko. H. Carpenter. 



CEnistis quadra in Co. Waterford. 



The above species is now ver}^ abundant in this neighbourhood. 

 Last year large numbers of both larvae and pupae were brought to me by 

 one of my parish school boys— a lad with a great taste for natural 

 history. The lar\'ae were found on three different kinds of trees, viz., 

 Oak, Beech, and Whitethorn. 



I bred a large number, and had the pleasure of presenting a dozen 

 specimens to Mr. Carpenter for the Museum of Science and Art, Dublin, 

 The insect occurred again in great plenty this year. I was unable to 

 collect many specimens, as I w^as from home on my holiday when it was 

 in best condition ; on my return I observed numbers of both sexes lying 

 on the roads through the Curraghmore woods. During the last five or 

 six years it seems to have enormously increased in numbers about here. 

 I got one specimen on the i6th August, 1895 {Irish Naluralisty 1897, 

 p. 282), and thought it then a great rarity. 



WlI,I,IAM W. Fl^EMYNG. 



Coolfin, Portlaw. 



New locality for Paludestrina Jenkinsi. 



Last August, at Ben Head, Co. Meath, I came across three dead speci- 

 mens of /'(T//^(^<?i/rmay6;/Z'/«^?, Smith, amongst marine drift. Mr. Welch 

 has since verified them, and informs me that Mr. B. R. Lucas of North- 

 wick found the species in September alive and extremely plentiful in 

 pools along the Boyne between Drogheda and the sea. 



A. L. Massy. 

 Malahide. 



