40 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



It will certainly have the result of stimulating mountaineering 

 among those who, like myself, possess a special predilection for 

 it, because, besides the object which most climbers have in view, 

 namely, "a glorious glance around," it will in future, by those 

 who take it up, be the means of providing something more 

 substantial in the shape of specimens, as well as the accumula- 

 tion of facts of great importance to science. 



I hope, therefore, to see in the pages of the ' Entomologist,' 

 next season, many notes, the result of practical observations, 

 bearing upon this interesting subject. 



195, Ladywood Road, Birmingham, Nov. 5, 1893. 



A CATALOGUE OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF IRELAND. 



By W. F. de Vismes Kane, M.A., M.R.I.A., F.E.S. 



(Continued from p. 15.) 



Eriogaster lanestris, L. — Very locally abundant. Ardrahan 

 (B.C.) and near Galway (A.); Magilligan, abundant (C), Co. 

 Derry ; and near Kilkenny. 



BoMBYX neustria, L. — Not known in the northern half of 

 Ireland, but has apparently a similar distribution to that of 

 Dasychlra imdihunda. Ennis, Co. Clare {Br.); near Cappagh, 

 Co. Waterford {Miss V.); Killarney, two (IF.); Castle Taylor, 

 Co. Galway, abundant {Miss N.) ; one at Clondalkiu, Co. Dublin, 

 Mr. Grierson. 



BoMBYX RUBi, L. — Universally distributed from Inishowen to 

 Donegal {W. E. H.), to Westmeath and southwards to Killarney, 

 &c., and from Howth to Dublin to the Co. Galway {B. E. D.) in 

 the west. 



BoMBYX QUERCus, L., var. callunce, Palmer. — Very common, 

 and universally distributed. Mr. Birchall says that he has never 

 met with the type in Ireland. I am of the same opinion. Two 

 examples are, however, reported in the E. Mo. Mag. iv. 283, from 

 Cromlyn {Mrs. B.), and Queenstown, Mr. Bond. The insect 

 usually seems to hybernate as a larva. An example is recorded 

 by Mr. Watts, however, taken at Killarney, June 22nd, 1890, 

 nearly full-fed. It spun up at the end of July, and emerged the 

 following June 21st. A female, with hind wings very dark brown 

 like the male, is in the Rev. James Bristow's collection. 



Odonestis potatoria, L. — Widely distributed, and occa- 

 sionally common locally. At Ahascragh, very abundant 

 {B.E.D.), and near the town of Galway {A.) ; near Enniskillen 

 (5.) ; Markree Castle, Sligo ; Favour Royal, Tyrone ; Churchill, 

 Co. Armagh {J.), &c. 



