Notes. 



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France on a dnng-ily, Miisca nifa or Dasyphora fin 

 Wasps," etc., p. 224).— K. J. McWeenky, Dublin. 



France on a dung-fly, Musca nifa ox Dasyphora praloricm:' (" Vctictable 



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LIV EKWOR TS. 



Irish Liverworts. —To t\\^ Journal 0/ Jh>hxny {or April, Rev. C. 11. 

 Waddell, li.D., contributes a short paper on the distribution of Ay, v/«cvc' 

 in Ireland, remarking that in his opinion the extensive felling of tind)er 

 and draining^of land which have been carried out in recent times has had 

 a marked effect on the moisture-loving species, and quoting some in- 

 stances of the recent disappearance of such plants owing to these causes. 

 He adds some new stations for North of Ireland Lejeunetc. 



ZOOI.OGY. 



ARACHNIDS . 



Argyroneta aquatica in Captivity.— It is with much pleasure 

 that I have read Mr. Johnson's most interesting article on this subject 

 (p. 99). I m3-self kept a water spider for some time ; but it did not live 

 sufficiently long for me to make many notes on the subject. My aquarium 

 consisted of a tumbler with a little fine gravel on the bottom, and a flat 

 pebble supported on two others, under which the spider constructed a 

 web after the manner described by Mr. Johnson. During its short 

 period of captivity it killed a water-boatman (Xotoncda glauca) which it 

 pulled into its web. After the Aorjyronda had died I removed the stone 

 under w^hich the web was constructed, and discovered that some small 

 pebbles were attached to the edge of the web, and I at first thought 

 that they had been suspended there by the spider to weigh down the 

 edge ; but I afterwards concluded that it had been originally attached to 

 the bottom, and these pebbles had been buoyed up when it was filled 

 with air. — H. Lyster Jameson, Killencoole, Co. Louth. 



INSE^C TS. 



A New List of Irisli Lepidoptera.— In the EntoDwIoglst for 



Februarj^ Mr. W. F. de V. Kane commences a new list of the Butterflies 

 and Moths of Ireland, which w^ll be of the greatest use to naturalists, 

 and meets a long felt want. We hope to record the progress of Mr. 

 Kane's work, and to give a summary of his results in each group as it 

 appears. 



Lepidoptera of Londonderry.— Mr. Kane has pointed out an 



error in my list, the species Gcoinctra vernaria must be deleted. Mr. 

 Milne informs me that he reared a specimen of Scsia iipidiforDns last 

 June. — D. C. Campeei.i., Londonderr}-. 



Lepidoptera at Ardara, Co. Donegal.— Though I paid most 

 attention to the coleoptera at Ardara, I did not altogether neglect other 

 orders, and managed to pick up a few butterflies and moths. Of the 

 latter I should have probably taken more species had not the cold that 

 I caught prevented night work. 



The butterflies were represented by the three "Whites," viz.: Picris 

 hrassic(t:, P. rapa-, and P. napi; Vanessa ■iiriiccv ; Satynis scuiclc, fairly common 

 on the sandhills, but only just coming out when I left ; dcnonyinpha 

 typhon, a single specimen on the mountain ; C. paviphilus, common on the 

 mountain ; Polyonirdatus pklcvas, and Lyccvna icariis. I almost forgot to 

 mention the ubiquitous Epinephilc janira which abounded in the 

 meadows. Among the moths the following occurred; Sincrintht(s 

 popiili, a single male on the shore of the estuary ; A'lidaria vmndana ; 

 Cyviatophora duplaris, a single specimen at the Rectory ; Xylophasia nwnoolypha, 

 a couple of nice dark forms ; Chancas graminis, on Ragweed ; Caradriiia 

 qtiadripunctata; Apatnca didyma; the paucity of Noctua^ is to be laid to the 



