LÉPIDOPTÉROLUGIE COMPARÉE I IQ 



loch, and English lake) and were flying in splendid condition 

 on July ist igi2. Extremely brightly coloured, they represent 

 the best type of the Middle Form well ocellated and with a 

 brighter greenish tinge on the under sides, and rather larger 

 ocellations on the hind wings than in the South Scotch examples, 

 though sometimes the apical ocellation of the fore wings on the 

 upper side is obsolescent as in laidion, and on the under side 

 reduced in proportion. But elsewhere the cold and wet summer 

 has made the collection of Irish tiphon extremely difficult, and 

 several of my correspondents in the north hâve failed entirely 

 to capture what is usually a common butterfly. In Armagh the 

 Rev. W. F. Johnson has taken it at Churchill, and Mr. Kane in 

 Monaghan; Sir Charles Langham announces it from Tempo in 

 Fermanagh, while some seasons my correspondent Mr. J. E. R. 

 Allen finds it in fair abundance about Enniskillen. He has 

 kindly sent me his séries to examine, and presented me with 

 examples. They are comparatively small but several of the maies 

 show augmented ocellation on the under side of the hind wings 

 and the pale females are also well " eyed '' on the upper side. 



Westward again toward the Atlantic in the County of Sligo, 

 Mr. P. H. Russ, speaks of it at Culleenamore in 1882 as " if 

 anything more abundant than usual ". The Oxhill range, and 

 near Lough Gill, with Markree Castle, are also favoured loca- 

 lities. In mid Galway it seems to be decidedly common at 

 Clonbrock and in the wild hill country of Connemara where Miss 

 Emily Lawless discovered it many years ago. Mr. Kane found 

 it at Moycullen on the banks of the Shannon, and on the border 

 of Co. Roscommon at Ballinasloe. In Mayo it is widespread to 

 the Atlantic. But Mr. Bonaparte Wyse took only one worn 

 example on the shores of Lough Coon, near Pontoon; and Mr. Kane 

 (Clare. Island Survey Proc. Royal Irish Acad., vol. XXXI, Jan. 

 1912) suggests that a great part of the Mayo bogland is too wet, 

 too inhospitable to maintain any save the commonest, and hardiest 

 lepidoptera. He reports tiphon, however, from Achill Island. and 

 from Lough Doo in south-west Mayo just on Killary Bay. 



