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CATALOGUE OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF IRELAND: 

 SUPPLEMENTARY LIST. 



By W. F. DE VisMEs Kane, M.A., M.R.I.A., F.E.S. 



(Concluded from p. 16.) 



BuPALUs piNiARiA, L. — Near Kildare (Freke). 



Sterrha sacraria, L. — One taken at Timoleague, Co. Cork, 

 27th August, 1898, by Mr. E. Donovan. 



Abraxas sylvata. Scop. — Kenmare (B. E. D.). 



Hybernia rupicapraria, Hh. — Sligo {McC). 



H. aurantiaria, Esp. — Enniskillen (P.). 



Cheimatobia boreata, Hb. — Achill Island, Connemara 

 {R.E. D.). 



Oporabia dilutata, Bkh., and 0. autumnata, Bkh. — The 

 notice of 0. autumnata and the two allied species by Mr. Prout 

 in the March number of the * Entomologist ' for this year has 

 again called my attention to the question of the distinction of 

 these three alleged species. I have already noted the occurrence 

 of a form from the Belfast hills, recognised by Mr. Barrett as 

 probably 0. autumnata, Gn. From a careful survey of a long 

 series of Oporabias in my own collection, I cannot detect any 

 which conform to Mr. Prout's diagnosis of the latter species. 

 For the most part, however, they are woodland examples ; and, 

 though very varied, belong to the varietal forms of 0. dilutata. 

 Ab. chi'isti/i is one of the most numerous from Hazlewood, Sligo, 

 and Mucross, Killarney, cf. Ent. xxxiii. pi. ii. figs. 7, 8, 9, 10; while 

 fig. 14 is also represented from three or four localities. There 

 are, moreover, some very beautiful forms with very white ground 

 barred with four sharply defined fuscous bands. I trust that 

 Irish lepidopterists, with Mr. Prout's paper to assist them in 

 diagnosis, may for the future pay more attention to this inter- 

 esting group. 



Larentia flavicinctata, Hb. — At Murlough Bay, Ballycastle, 

 Co. Antrim, the long grassy slopes which stretch up from the 

 sea to the foot of the chalk cliffs are full of Saxifrac/a hijpnoides, 

 the food-plant of this species. It was here resting on the rock 

 face that in 1897 that I met with numerous worn and a few fresh 

 examples of this moth, a new addition to the Irish fauna. Pro- 

 bably it will be found all round the Antrim coast- line, and 

 elsewhere, as in Sligo and the Burren of Clare, where this 

 saxifrage is plentiful. 



L. salicata, Hb. — Dromoland, Co. Clare {Hon. E. O'B.). 



Emmelesia T.ENIATA, St. — Timoleague, Co. Cork {R.D.). 



EupiTHEciA puLCHELLATA, St. — Timoleaguc, Co. Cork {R. D.). 



