d2 [Api^i. 



to bottle, as, next to Typh.va funiata, it was the coinnionest insect in the debris, 

 though by no means easy to detect without close scrutin}'. Aglemis hnmncus, 

 Gyll., has since been taken freely by Messrs. W. Holland and J. Collins, in 

 another haystack not far off. — James J. Walker, Oxford : March 19th, 1910. 



An early appearance of Celastrina argiolus. — My friend, Mr. J. J. Pellatt, 

 of Sheerness, writes me that on March 0th he caj^tured a freshly emerged 

 (? Celastrina argiolus in the Isle of Sheppey. In the exhavistive list of dates 

 of appearance of this insect in Mr. Tutt's "British Butterflies" (Vol. II, pp. 

 461-7), I can find only two notices of its having been observed earlier in the 

 season, viz., at Dover, February 15th, 1898 (Webb), and at Worcester, Febiaiary 

 20th, 1903 (Peed', and its occurrence in the first week in March, especially in so 

 bleak and exposed a locality as the Isle of Sheppey, is I think worth recording. 

 —Id : March 19th, 1910. 



Hyponorncuta irrorellus, Htibn., in Lancashire: a correction. — Referring to 

 the record of this insect at Silverdale, in the report of the November meeting 

 of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, my attention having 

 been directed to the fact that the species was only taken in a very restricted 

 area in Siirrey, and has not been known to occiu' for many years ; I took an 

 opportunity of comparing the specimens with those in Mr. Capper's collection, 

 and fovind them to be only the common U. evonymella. So. (cognatella, Hiib.). — 

 Wm. Mansbeidge, 4, Norwich Koad, Wavertree, Liverpool : March Uth, 1910. 



ileuteitjs. 



A List ov the NEUKorTERA of Ireland. By J. J. F. X Xing, F.E.S., 

 and J. N. Halbert. Proceedings of the Eoyal Irish Academy, Dublin, 1910. 

 Price Is. 6d. 



In 1889 Mr. King published " A Nevu'opterous Fauna of Ireland," and 

 after twenty-one years, another List by the same author — in conjunction with 

 Mr. Halbert — is most welcome. Diu-ing the interval, knowledge of the distri- 

 bution, &c., of these insects in Ireland has been greatly extended, but even yet 

 there appear to be very few workers at the grovip, and, as the authors tell us, very 

 little indeed has been done by anybody in the south and west of the country. 

 The names of 38 species are given as having been added since the 1889 List, 

 and 9 of them recorded species are deleted, but this does not quite accurately 

 state the advance made, as several of the additions are merely changes in 

 nomenclatiu-e, and were formerly represented in the List, by the now deleted 

 names. Still, in so comparatively small an ordei', and with so few workers, the 

 number of additions is respectable and satisfactory. 



The entire number of species recorded for Ireland is 240, as against 384 for 

 Great Britain, and the avithors appear to consider that the poverty of the Irish 

 fauna in this group of insects is clearly manifest, notwithstanding that so 

 large an area of the countz-y has been so little, or not at all, investigated. The 

 deficiency is most marked in the Dragon-flies, there being only 23 in Ireland 



