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tempted to propound novel views where all the necessary materials 

 were not at his hand. The result, to my thinking, is that he has fallen 

 into a serious error, which is all the more regrettable since it imputes 

 carelessness or worse to our distinguished and lamented colleague 

 Bates in some of the last entomological work on which he was 

 engaged. 



December \Ath, 1894. 



SCIOPTERYX CONSOBSINUS, KL., AN ADDITION TO THE BEITISH 

 TENTRREDINIDM. 



BY THE EEV. E. N. BLOOMFIELD, M.A., F.E.S. 



Hitherto only one species of Sciopteryx has been recorded as 

 occurring in Great Britain, but I can now add a second, which was 

 taken in Guestling by Mr. W. Bennett on April 3rd, 1893. 



S. consohrinus differs from *S'. costalis, more particularly, in having 

 " the mouth, orbits of the eyes, and stigma quite black, and the wings 

 hyaline," while S. costalis has the wings fuscous, the base of the 

 costa and stigma ochreous-yellow, and the orbits of the eyes more or 

 less white. 



The above-mentioned specimen has been compared with examples 

 in the British Museum, and appears to agree in every particular. 



Guestling Rectory : 



Novemler 2Qth, 1894. 



SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES on the LEPIDOPTERA of ENNtSKILLEN. 

 BY LIEUT. -COL. C. E. PARTRIDGE. 



Finding myself still in Enniskillen, I commenced in the spring 

 of this year to work further afield, and try to materially add to the 

 list made during 1893. 



Owing, however, to persistent wet weather, and, if possible, a 

 worse season than last, I only managed to add 118 species, making for 

 the two years a total of 396. Sugar was again a complete failure, and 

 I think half a dozen insects would represent my take. Few insects 

 were seen on the wing, and flowers were equally unproductive. 



The vast stretches of heather and mountain bog remain unex- 

 plored, and as my time here shortly expires, will continue to remain 

 80 unless others take up the work. 



