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I liave no record for the next south-western counties Cl are 

 and Limerick, but hâve little doubt that it exists there in the 

 same sort of local ities. For it is common again in some parts of 

 Kerry, e. g. at the Caragh Lake, and to Co. Cork on the shores 

 of Bantry Bay, and near Berehaven, and Adrigole where, con- 

 trary to the expérience of collectors in England {antea, p. 112), the 

 Rev. Mr. Johnson observed it " often in company with C. fam- 

 pliihis " (Jrish Naturaltst, vol. III, p. igg). Collecting in the 

 mountainous country about Kenmare, to the south of the famous 

 lakes of Killarney, my friend Mr. W. J. Kaye on the i6th June 

 1902 met with tiphon at about looo ft. towards the summit of 

 Windy Gap near Glencar. Between Kenmare and Glengarifî 

 the form is described by him as particularly fine and of very 

 large size " with a very small amount of spotting on the 

 underside ". It has been taken in Kilkenny, but in the southern 

 and south eastern counties, east Cork, Waterford, Wexford, and 

 along the seaboard counties between 52° and 55° latitude tiphon 

 appears to be wanting, or at least has not been reported. Return- 

 ing to central Ireland, however, westward from the Shannon river, 

 Mr. Kane reports it at Banagher in King's County, and over the 

 Bog of Allen to the Cromlyn Bog near Rathowen in Kildare; in 

 Oueen's County; and north again near Killynon, and Mullingar 

 in Westmeath; a locality known to most British naturalists as 

 prolific also of the beautiful " white " form of Melitœa aitrinia, 

 christened by Birchall var. hïbernica. 



Hère, I regret to say, my knowledge of the distribution of 

 Cœnonympha tiphon in Ireland is at an end, and I can only 

 express my regret that so many of our British collectors still 

 maintain their insularity with such zeal, that they seem to forego 

 completely the exploration even of " John Bull's Other Island ". 



But before concluding my remarks on the subject of distribu- 

 tion, and the three forms of the butterfly as we know it hère, 

 I should îike to draw attention to the extraordinary scarcity of 

 abnormal spécimens. Personally I hâve heard of but three, and 

 seen but one example of the kind. It is in the collection of 



