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apparently occupying the area over the discoidal cell. The lower left 

 wing is grey as contrasted with the right brown wing, and the undei'- 

 side of this wing is a distinctly blue green, and contrasts sti-ongly with 

 the three other wings ; insect apparently a female, and not a herma- 

 phrodite. Incurvaria pectinea was very abundant. May 6th : H. glauca 

 and a worn specimen of Anarfa myrtiUi. May 13th: A fine H. glauca, 

 Eupithccia indigata, and E. lariciata. May 18th : N. didaeoides $ and 

 <y on some palings near a village some way from the Chase. May 

 20th : Most of the above with the addition of Eupithecia nanata and 

 Tephrosia biundularia (usual dark form) ; E. indigata is much commoner 



than usual, but insects are very late." Mr. Stones writes May 



29th : — " I took a very fine specimen of Vanessa c-alhum at rest on 

 the 26th of April, at Llandudno, Carnarvon, North Wales ; and on 



April 14th I took Nyssia zonaria at Black^jool, Lancashire." 



The Rev. E. C. Dobree Fox (Castle Moreton) reports on March 30th, 

 that Taeniocampa munda was more plentiful than usual, whilst four 

 specimens of T. miniosa occurred in the district for the first time. Day 

 work produced only two Brephos parthenias and two Larentia multi- 



strigaria. Capt. Robertson writes, under date of Ajjril 14th, " I 



have just returned from Swansea after an unsuccessful expedition for 

 black Tephrosia crepuscidaria, of which I only captured three specimens, 

 two of which were typical. The only other insects captured were 

 Eupithecia abhreviata, Xylocampa areola, Lobojjhora carpinata, Mesotype 

 virgata. At my moth traj5 last night (at Coxhorne) I took Anticlea 

 nigrofasciaria, Selenia bilunaria, Larentia didymata. I captured a specimen 

 of Eucosmia certata in the garden on the 11th. Vanessa c-albmn apj^ears to 

 be common ; a female, captured March 30th, laid a few eggs on nettles 

 on April 2nd, which hatched April 11th. I have larvse of Nyssia hisjii- 



daria feeding on hawthorn and willow." Mr. W. F. de V. Kane 



(Kingstown) writes on April 24th : — " The season has been suitable for 

 sallow collecting, but the results as to quantity rather disappointing 

 both at Monaghan and Galway, where I spent a week collecting. 

 Taeniocampa munda, however, seems to have been more abundant than 

 usual, as hitherto I have rarely met with it ; but at Drumreaske, one 

 night's beating produced some twenty specimens to myself and a 

 friend, and I have records of the species from several new localities. 

 The ten specimens which fell to my share are extraordinarily varied in 

 colour and pattern, from a rich buff to grey-brown, with the spots 

 sometimes obsolete, at other times very distinct, and many of them 

 have a very dark band across mid- wing. T. opima occurred again in 

 Galway, also Panolis piniperda. Lobojjhora carpinata was scarce, but 

 one female laid some ova. T. gracilis was abundant, but I noticed that 

 a great many were more or less crippled both in hind and fore wings. 

 The season undoubtedly in some way affected the pupa3 of this species 

 adversely. Brotolomia meticulosa emerged early in April. Xylina 

 ornithopus occurred occasion all}'^ on the white bark of birch trees. 

 How is it that Fachnobia rubricosa, which occurs but sparsely in Ireland, 

 is sometimes very abundant on sallows growing on the edge of a bog ? 

 I have taken a couple of dozen thus more than once, but ordinarily it 

 occurs singly and rarely all over Ireland."' Mr. Moberly on April 



30th writes : — " At the New Forest last Saturday, three or four hours hard 

 work only produced six larvae of Apatura iris. The scarcity of common 

 larva3 was very noticeable during our beating. Larvai of Cleora liche- 



