252 The Irish Naturalist. 



ZOOLOGY. 



IN S E C TS. 

 Lemaerichsoni, Suffr., at Santry, Co. Dublin.— Examining 

 some specimens of Le//ia collected by me last May, I noticed one which 

 was very distinct from L. lichenis, and greatly resembled the rare Lei)ia 

 erichsoni. On sending it to Canon Fowler, the identification was con- 

 firmed. I succeeded in taking several more specimens on subsequent 

 collecting excursions to the same locality. Dr. Power's capture of L. 

 erichsoni, near Waterford, in the autvimn of 1857, seems the only record 

 from Ireland. The coleopterist in whose district L. iiielanopa is known to 

 occur, should make a good search for L. erichsoni, as the British examples 

 are considered by some authorities referrable to an unnamed concolorous 

 variety of L. melanopa, and Canon Fowler has described the last-mentioned 

 insect as probably widely distributed in Ireland. The specimens of L. 

 erichsoni were taken by sweeping.— J. N. Hai,be;rT, Dublin. 



Wasps in Co. Antrim.— In the July issue of the Irish Naturalist 



there is a note on Irish Wasps from Mr. G. H. Carpenter. — I beg to send 

 a list of Wasps collected by me in 1887 at Cushendun, Co. Antrim, and 

 verified by Mr. F. W, Elliott, of Buckhurst-hill, Essex: — Vespa norvegica, 

 V. sylvcstris, V. vulgaris, V. rufa, and V. geriiianica. — Sl^. ARTHUR BrENAN, 

 Knocknacarry, Co. Antrim. 



Sirex g^igas and Acherontia atropos in Co. Antrim. — These 

 two insects were taken in August, 1892, at the Cushendun coastguard 

 station, and are both new to this locality. — Si<. Arthur Brenan, 

 Knocknacarry. 



Conopteryx rhamni and Nonagrria arundinis, near 

 Limerick. I captured the "Brimstone" butterfly in Cratloe Wood, 

 Co. Clare, on the 12th and i8th August, 1893. Two specimens (both 

 males) in beautiful condition, were taken. The record is of considerable 

 interest, as the insect has so far been taken in Ireland only at Killarney, 

 and near Kylemore, Co. Galway. It is a common butterfly in England, 

 appearing early in the spring after hybernating, when it is very often ob- 

 served. In August, 1892, whilst gathering Reed-maces {TypJia latifolia), 

 usually designated " Bullrushes," to my surprise I observed several of the 

 stems contained the living pupae of a fair-sized moth. I took examples 

 so affected, near Coonagh, Co. Claie, and also at Mungret, Co. Limerick, 

 but unfortunately failed to secure any imagos of the insect, those which 

 emerged making good their escape, owing to the difficulty of keeping the 

 pupae moist in the long stems of the plants. This season I have been 

 more fortunate, and have bred some sixteen good specimens from plants 

 gathered near Mungret and Castleconnell, thus satisfactorily proving 

 the identity of the insect as the "BuUrush" Moth [Nonagria arundinis), 

 hitherto recorded only in Ireland from counties Down, Cork, and 

 Wicklow. — Francis Neai^e, Limerick. 



MO LI uses. 

 Trochus duminyi and Odostomia delicata on the Irish 

 Coast. — I spent the last week in June at Bundoran, but owing to a 

 most adverse change of weather, a gale from the north-west with rain, I 

 was not able to work on the shore as I wished, and it was only the day 

 before I returned home, that I was able to procure some promising drift. 

 My great hope was to obtain Trochus duminyi, and I am happy to say that 

 three specimens were found in the portion searched. I got one, and 

 Mr. Marshall, of Seven Oaks, Torquay (with whom I shared the drift), 

 secured two. He also records the occurrence in the same drift, of the 

 new shell Odostomia delicata; he says "this shell was described by the 

 Marquis de Monterosata in th.^. journal de Conchyliologie (1874, p. 267) as 

 Mediterranean, and it is figured in Sowerby's 'Index of British Shells,' 



