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had been noticed at Mont Dorc (Auvergne) in 1879 ; in Alsace ; and, according to 

 M. Jourdheuillo, at Troycs (Aube) in 1887 and 1888. M. Fallou docs not allude to 

 the " France nieridionale " given by Guenee in his " Noctuelites " (ii, p. 332, 1852). 



We call attention to Duponchel's statement as to its occurrence in Normandy 

 previous to 1829 as of especial interest at the present time. Duponchel says that a 

 brother of M. Boisduval found it regularly at Falaise every year, that it was double 

 brooded, and that the larvae fed on a variety of plants, including sunflower and 

 Jerusalem artichoke, burdock and cucumber. Guenee (/. c.) briefly alludes to the 

 same subject. According to this statement, by eminent Lepidopterists, its first 

 appearance in the North of France is by no means recent, and, in fact, its first 

 recorded occurrence in the country was in the noi'th. Does it still occur in Nor- 

 mandy ? — Eds. 



Acidalia immorata. — In the 24th vol. of the Ent. Mo. Mag., p. 133, is recorded 

 the capture of this insect, as follows :— " On June 27th last (1887) Mr. C. H. Morris 

 of this town showed me an insect of which he had just caught two specimens . . . 

 the insect somewhat resembled Fidonia atomaria . . . subsequent examination 

 of the specimens showed clearly it was not that species, and that it teas evidently 

 new to the British list." It may interest your readers to learn that the statement 

 underlined is incorrect. On referring to Proc. Ent. Soc. of London, 1868, p. xxxviii, 

 they will find these words : — " Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a specimen of Choerocampa 

 celerio . . . also a moth, from the British collection of the late Mr. Desvignes, 

 ticketted ' immoraria, Iliib.,' which it was suggested was an extraordinary variety of 

 Strenia clathraria." Thus the insect had been recorded twenty years or so earlier. — 

 J. Greene, Kostrevor, Clifton, Bristol: February '\2th, 1891. 



[We prefer to put the matter this way : — The late Mr. Desvignes appeared to 

 have correctly named his specimen ; but it seems strange he nowhere published (so 

 far as we know) any statement about it. Subsequently, after his death, it was erro- 

 neously considered a variety of S. clathraria, and thus it rested down to 1887. See 

 also Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxiv, p. 163, and Proc. Ent. Soc, 1887, p. xlix.— Eds.]. 



Coleoptera and Lepidoptera at Bundoran, Ireland. — On July 14th, 1890, Mrs. 

 Johnson and I started for Bundoran, where we arrived after a tedious journey, the 

 latter part of which was relieved by the scenery as we passed along the shores of 

 Lough Erne, or crossed the river Erne, or viewed the mountains of Leitrim and 

 Sligo. Bundoran itself is of the usual type of small Irish towns : a long, straggling 

 sti'cet, with here and there an offshoot to right or left ; it lies on the southern side 

 of Donegal Bay, with the sea in front and the mountains rising in the backgi-ound 

 at a distance of some three or four miles ; north-west lies the mouth of the Erne, 

 and between it and Bundoran are extensive sand-hills, covei'ed with Ammophila, 

 wild pansies, ragweed, and yellow bedstraw {Galium veriim), with a few patches 

 of dwarf roses {Rosa spiyiosissima) ; this formed our chief hunting-ground. We 

 twice made excursions towards the mountains, but found the sand-hills much the 

 best ground. 



I had never been on the west coast of Ireland before, and was in great hopes of 

 turning up something good, but in this I was disappointed, partly from the uii- 



