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pleted, is a large amount of valuable information u[)on localities and 

 the variation of species, but it still contains records of species which 

 require confirmation. These seem to be derived from a considerable 

 list of species observed at Clonbrock, Co. Galway, by the Hon. E. E. 

 Dillon, published in the same magazine. A considei'ation of the 

 species therein included, as compared with the Lepidopterous fauna 

 of the rest of Ireland, seems to lead to the conclusion that groups of 

 rare or local species must have transferred themselves from various 

 spots in the South of England, or of the continent, to that one 

 favoured, far west locality ; and that they must have, in a considerable 

 degree, altered their habits and modes of life by the way. 



In the "Irish Naturalist," 1893, is a list of 2(jO species of Mncro- 

 Lepidoptera taken in the neighbourhood of Londonderry, drawn up 

 by Mr. D. C. Campbell ; and he, with his brother and Mr. J. N. Milne, 

 have furnished some information as to the Micros of that district ; 

 the same has been done by the Rev. W. F. Johnson and Mr. C. A. 

 Watts for Armagh, Donegal, and Belfast; at the other end of the 

 country the Rev. W. W. Flemyng has supplied much information for 

 Waterford ; and intermediately the Rev. J. Bristowe and Mr. G. V. 

 Hart for Dublin and the surrounding districts. I think that the only 

 other important contribution to our knowledge of Irish Lepidoptera 

 is Col. C. E. Partridge's record in this Magazine for 1893 and 1S95, 

 of his own and Capt. E. W. Browne's captures at Enniskillen. 



It would be absurd to close this slight sketch of our progress in 

 local knowledge of our Lepidoptera without referring to the com- 

 prehensive Catalogue by Mr. J. Jenner Fust, published in the 

 " Transactions of the Entomological Society of London," 1868, in 

 which the distribution was given of all the then known species in- 

 habiting Great Britain and Ireland, so far as had then been investi- 

 gated. This paper, which is of a most elaborate character, and must 

 have cost an enormous amount of work, shows the distribution of each 

 species as to, in the first place provinces, and in the second sub- 

 provinces, in the manner adopted with reference to wild flowers in 

 the " Cybele Britannica." The whole of the British Isles are therein 

 divided into eighteen provinces, and thirty -eight sub-provinces, and to 

 these the species of Lepidoptera are assigned by Mr. Fust in the two 

 tables, to which also he adds a summary. By the nature of these 

 lists or tables localities and general information are excluded, and the 

 authorities are only generally funiislicd in the introductions. 



{To be continued). 



