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favourable season, and partly from the short time I had to spend, as I returned home 

 for Sunday, 20th, and left altogether on the 26th, so that I had only a few days for 

 collecthig ; I should mention that I spent two days near Belleek, of pottery fame, at 

 Templenew, where the hunting-ground lay in old woods of hazel and holly, stretching 

 along the banks of the Erne, the home of the badger, a very promising locality, but 

 as I had only a few hours I did not do much, especially as the second day was 

 spoiled by rain. 



I had hoped to get some good varieties of Agrotis on the sand-hills, but I was 

 totally at fault, as I did not see a single specimen ; in fact, the Lepidoptera were 

 few and far between, owing, I imagine, to the dampness of the season, for previous 

 to my arrival, I was told there had been continuous wet weather for some time. The 

 buttei'jflies comprised Pieris brassiuce, P. rapcB, and P. napi, Epinephele Jaiiira, and 

 Lycana Icarus, this last was large and fine, but not plentiful. I took on the sand- 

 hills a 9 of ^. Janira, with the blotches on the anterior-wings large and nearly 

 white, giving it when on the wing the appearance of Satyrus Semele, for which I at 

 first mistook it. The Noctum were represented by Triphcena pronuba, Xylophasia 

 monogJypha (polyodon) , and Mamestra furva. The first two were taken at sugared 

 heads of ragweed, the last (a single specimen) flew into our sitting-room. X. mono- 

 glypha and T. pronuba were quite the ordinary forms, and not plentiful. A single 

 specimen of Eupithecia centaureata came to sugared ragweed. These were all that 

 were produced by night work, which was pleasantly varied by a visit from a keeper 

 ■who wished to know whether we were ferretting rabbits. 



By beating and kicking the tufts of Amtnophila we took several Melanippe 

 sociata (suhtristata), of rather darker form than nsnvii, ti\so Platyptila ochrodactyla 

 and Mimcesopiilus pterodactylus. The oidy thing that was really plentiful on the sand- 

 hills was Crambus perlellus, which showed a good deal of variation. Inland we took 

 Lomaspilis marginata, Tortrix icterana, Sericoris cespitana, S. lacunana, Halonota 

 trigeminana, Catoptria Scopoliana, and Elachista cygnipenella, these were taken by 

 beating hedges and among sallows in marshy ground. 



At Templenew our captures were not numerous nor exciting : one Euplthecia 

 tenidata beaten out of a sallow bush ; one Tanagra atrata, in the wood ; Rivida 

 sericealis, abundant and dark ; Scapula lutealis, Crambus culmellus, Sericoris 

 lacunana, Bactra lanceolana, Catoptria Scopoliana, and Qrapholitha nigromaculana, 

 in meadows and among Iris pseudacorus, or " flaggons," as the country people call 

 them. I am indebted to IMr. Barrett for kindly looking over and determining for 

 me those species about which I was doubtful. 



Of Coleoptera I managed to take a much larger number than of Lepidoptera, 

 partly owing, I dare say, to my better acquaintance with them, and partly to 

 their being less affected by the damp. At Belleek (Templenew), the Erne seems 

 more productive of salmon than Ilydradephaga, for I could only get a solitary 

 specimen of Hydroporus erythrocephalus. Under stones I got Leistus rufescens and 

 Pterostichus vulgaris ; on Iris pseudacorus were Donacia sericea and Aphthona 

 ccerulea ; and by sweeping herbage I took Telephorus fulmis and T.Jlavilabris. 



Bundoran produced a much richer harvest. On the sand-hills JS'otiophilus 

 aquaticus, Clivinafussor, Broscus cephalotes, llarpalus rujtcornis, Calathus melano- 

 cephalus, and C. micropterus were found under stones and at roots of grass, &c.' 

 Cereyun melanocephalus, C.Jlavipes, C. hanwrrhoidalis, C. depressus, C. terminalus, 



