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Newman ; in Ireland Mr. Earrctt has taken it in Galwaj, and " Dr. Wallace at 

 Eillarncj ; " -n-hile in Scotland — Eannoch, Locli Long, Loch Goilhcad, Ben Nevis, 

 Kilmun, Skye, and Ross-shire are recorded localities. — II. Jexnee-Fust, Jan., Hill 

 Court, Falfield, Grloucester : November, 1873. 



Lepidopiera of Ireland {Notodonta bicolora). — In justice to the memory of 

 a hard-working and honest collector, whose statements were never hefore douhted, 

 I cannot allow Mr. Bircliall's List of the Lepidoptera of Ireland (published in 

 last month's Entomologist's Monthly Magazine) which he states have been 

 erroneously recorded, and which includes Notodonta bicolora, to go forth without 

 pi'otesting against excluding that siDccies ; for, when I was at Killarney in the summer 

 of 1871, I purposely made enquiry, and found where Mr. P. Bouchard had lived, and 

 met with a man who saw one of the specimens he took alive in liis box just after ho 

 liad captured it, and the tree on which it was found was pointed out to me. I do 

 not think because others have been there and not found it, there should be any 

 reason to doubt the word of a man who I have every reason to believe never once 

 attempted to pass off Foreign for British specimens. Dr. Gill has the diary of the 

 late Mr. Bouchard, with the dates of captures of the seven or eight specimens he 

 took over three or four seasons' collecting. I should myself like to stay six weeks 

 there at the proper time, if there were accommodation to be obtained in the neigh- 

 bourhood, but it is five or six miles from Muckross, and no lodgings of any decent 

 kind are to be had nearer ; and the distance and fatigue of working the ground, 

 which is very boggy and irregular, would be more, I think, than my strength woidd 

 permit. — Samuel Stevens, 28, King Street, Coveut Garden : December, 1873. 



A few additions to the recorded captures of Lepidoptera in the Isle of Sheppy. 

 — During the past season some few species have occurred to me in the island that 

 I believe have not hitherto been recorded from thence. Sesia myopiformis ; pupae 

 in apple branches ; imago on flowers, fences, &c. Calamia phragmitidis ; one speci- 

 men among Ariindo phragmites, on the cliffs. Scotosia dubitata, Cerigo Cytherea, 

 Agrotis puta and tritici, Noctua plecta and rubi, and one fine Heliothis dijisacea, at 

 sugar. On the evening of the 1st of July, while mothing near Sheerness, I was fortunate 

 enough to take a rather worn specimen of Q-eometra smaragdaria, which had settled 

 on a grass stem. Last season, a beautifully fresh fore-wing of the moth was picked up 

 in the dockyard by my friend, Mr. J. J. Walker ; and the occurrence of the insect again 

 this year would lead one to hope that in future years further examples of the " Essex 

 Emerald " may be met with on this side of the water. To take another rarity was 

 still in store for me. On the night of the 24th of August, two very fine Leucania 

 albipuncta, which visited some thistle-heads previously sugared, were captured, and. 

 form a very good addition to my collection. Besides the above-named species, 

 Eiipithecia suhumbrata, Acidalia emidaria, Acentropus niveus, Ilomoesoma sinuella, 

 Agdistis Bennetii, pupaj of Nonagria typhce, and larvffi of Bombyx castrensis and 

 Acronycta tridens were met with pretty frequently. None of the females of Acen- 

 tropus nii'eus that I took were apterous, or at all approaching to that state. Spilodes 

 palealis was also disturbed more numerously than usual in this locality, among 

 growths of Daiicus carola. — A. HoDGSOX, 223, High Street, Mile Town, Sheerness : 

 December, 1873. 



