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exception, which I think it best to give in his own words. He 

 writes : — '* Mine pupated under ground, forming a slight earthen 

 cocoon. The only pupa I have got in a natural state was also 

 in an earthen cocoon, between the branches of a dandelion 

 root, which I had cut about two inches below the surface and 

 one inch below the junction. This emerged, but was crumpled 

 a little." 



I was moving about a good deal while breeding mine, and as I 

 wished to take them about with me for the purpose of observation, 

 I was unable to keep them supplied with earth. Is it usual for 

 larvge, whose nature it is to pupate under ground, to spin webs 

 and pupate in them if they have no earth ? 



Feb. 2nd, 1894. 



A CATALOGUE OF THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF IRELAND. 



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



(Continued from p. 44.) 



CYMATOPHORID.E. 



Thyatira derasa, L. — This widely-spread insect, though 

 found in almost every suitable locality, occurs in but compara- 

 tively few places in abundance. Nowhere in Ireland have I found 

 it in such swarms as occasionally I have seen of T. hatis. It 

 chiefly affects wooded districts in the lowlands, whereas hatis is 

 to be found in mountain glens at considerable altitudes. The 

 following localities do not in any way exhibit its wide distribution, 

 but show a varied selection of shore and inland : — 



It is fairly abundant in Gal way, at Clonbrock and Castle 

 Taylor ; at Drumreaske, Co. Monaghan ; near Kenmare and Kil- 

 larney, Co. Kerry ; Killynon and elsewhere in Westmeath ; and 

 in parts of the Co. Wicklow. Only occasionally found at Knock- 

 narea, Sligo (R.) ; Derry {W. E. H.) ; Eenvyle, Connemara, Co, 

 Galway ; Favour Eoyal, Tyrone ; Farnham, Co. Cavan ; Cromlyn 

 (il/rs. B.), Westmeath ; Killiney, Kingstown, and Howth, Co. 

 Dublin ; near Banagher, and Toberdaly, King's Co. 



Thyatira batis, L — Equally widely distributed as the last 

 species in woodlands, but, though only of occasional occurrence 

 in some districts, it occasionally appears in great numbers. On 

 the wooded shores of L. Gill, Co. Sligo, I have seen it in clouds 

 at sugar ; also on the shores of L. Onghter, near Killeshandra, 

 Co. Cavan ; and it is very common at Clonbrock, Co. Galway. 

 In mountain glens, in Kerry and elsewhere, I liave met with it 

 in great abundance, and as persistent and troublesome as Xi/lo- 

 phasia monoglypha, though usually it is rather skittish and shy 



