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grey ground colour, like the English form, fasciae not dark but 

 well-defined. 



Ab. gaelica. Farnham, Co. Cavan, one female specimen. 



Cymatophoka duplaris, L., var. argentea, Tutt. — The almost 

 unicolorous Linnean type does not occur to my knowledge in 

 Ireland. Irish examples, from which Mr. Tutt described this 

 variety, are all of a silvery grey colour, but the transverse bands 

 vary much in width and in depth of tone, being sometimes only 

 slightly represented by a shading of dirty grey. The most bril- 

 liant specimen I have ever seen was taken at Drumreaske, Co. 

 Monaghan, and was almost white and black when freshly taken, 

 and is comparable to the ab. gaelica of C. or in the trenchant 

 contrast of coloration. In addition to the Lincolnshire locality 

 noted by Mr. Tutt, the late Frederick Bond informed me that 

 the var. argentea is commonly taken in the South of England ; 

 and also that Mr. Tutt's var. ohscura is not confined to Scotland, 

 but was bred by Mr. Bond from Tilgate larvte near Brighton. 

 Dr. Buchanan White also writes that none of his Scottish C. du- 

 plaris can be called pale, though variable in tone of ground 

 colour, but that his English specimens have more of a brownish 

 tinge, and are smaller. Apparently the Irish forms of both 

 species differ in a parallel direction from those of Scotland and 

 parts of England. 



Localities: Ballycastle, one (Curz), Co. Derry ; Ardara, one 

 (J.), Co. Donegal ; Knockuarea, rare IR.), Rockwood, Hazlewood, 

 and Markree Castle, occasional, Co. Sligo ; Drumreaske, Co. 

 Monaghan ; Favour Royal, not very rare ; Altadiawan, nume- 

 rous, Tyrone ; Farnham, Co. Cavan, a few ; Cookesborough and 

 Killynon, Westmeath, not very rare (Miss R. and K.) ; Belleisle, 

 Fermanagh ; Glendalough and MoycuUen, Connemara, and 

 Merlin Park, Co. Galway ; Crossmalina, Co. Mayo, not rare ; 

 Tiuahely (Bw.), Co. Wicklow; Cappagh, Co. Waterford ; Killar- 

 ney (B. and K.), near Kenmare, scarce, and Glengarriff, not 

 scarce, Co. Kerry ; Crookhaven, one, Co. Cork. 



[Note. — I omitted, when recording the larvae of Bomhyx 

 quercus, taken at Killarney by Mr. Watts, to say that the resulting 

 imago was var. callunce.] 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES ON BALTIA, Moore, AND MESA PI A, Kirby. 



By James Edwards, P.E.S. 



In his original description of Mesapia shaivii, Bates says 

 (Henderson and Hume, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 305) that the 

 neuration is the same as that of peloria. Hew., excejDt that the 

 second branch of the subcostal is emitted long after the end of 



