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Phalera toucephala, Linn.— Very'common. 



Pygaera pigri*a, Hufn. — Common on the shores of Lough Swilly. We 

 took the larvae plentifully on dwarf sallow at Rathmullan. 



Lophopteryx camelina, Linn. — Common. 



L. dlctaea, Linn. — Common. 



L. dictaeoidcs, Bsp.— We took two larvae on birch at Rathmullan. 



L. ziczaC) Linn. — Common. 



L. dromcdarius, Linn. — Common. 



Thyatira derasa, Linn. — Common. 



T. batis, Linn. — Common. 



Cymatophora or, Fab.— We took a few larvae on birch on Lough Swilly 

 shore. 



We never found any of the Lithosiida: near Londonderry. It seems 

 strange that they did not turn up at Magilligan, as lichens grow very 

 abundantly upon the dwarf blackthorns on the sandhills. 



(TO BE CONTINUED.) 



NOTES . 



BOTANY. 



MUS C I. 



IVIosses and Hepatics of the Ben Bulben District. Since I 

 sent the note of Ben Bulben Mosses {Irish Naturalist, vol. i., p. 194), I came 

 upon a packet which had been overlooked, containing the following 

 species, which I would like to add to the other list : — 



At Bundoran, Hyimum lutesccns, Hudson, with old fruit, and II. inter- 

 oncdium, Lindb.; in ravine on Seafin Mountain, Ortliothecium intricatum, 

 Hartm., growing with 0. rufescens; in Slish Wood, H. horreri, Spruce, Georgia 

 pelludda, L-, and Lepidozia reptans, L- — C. H. Waddei^I/, Saintfield, Co. 

 Down. 



Sphagrnum austini (SuU.) in Ireland. While collecting mosses 

 in 1889, on a mountain about two miles south of Glenariff, in the County 

 Antrim, I found a large tussock oi Sphagnum austini, Sull. I am not aware 

 that it had previously been collected in Ireland, and in September, 1892, 

 while moss-hunting on a part of the Bog of Allen, in the parish of Geashill, 

 King's County, in company with the Rev. Canon C. D. Russell, I discovered 

 a very large clump of this same rare moss. In this last case the whole 

 of the bog for hundreds of yards round had, some months previously, 

 been burned over, and every scrap of heather, bog plants, and moss, 

 cleared off by fire, except this big colony of Sjjhagnum austini, showing how 

 much water it must have contained when the surface of the bog had been 

 blazing. And since then Canon Russell has sent me another specimen 

 of the same moss, which he found in another bog not far from Geashill 

 railway station. — H. W. LETT, Aghaderg, Co. Down. 



F£JiNS. 



Polypodium calcareum, at Carlingrford, not indigrenous. 



The editorial note in the December number of the Irish Naturalist (vol. i. 

 p. 195), on Professor Hart's note concerning Vanessa io at Howth, reminds 

 me of my own transgressions. In 1878, my brother and I planted a quantity 

 of Polypodium calcareum on Carlingford Mountain. I had forgotten all about 

 it, when, in 1889, the Rev. G. Robinson asked me, as I was thinking of 



