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which he subsequently published were not, at the same time, 

 made in the cabinet-drawers, considerable confusion was naturally 

 caused subsequently. 



As an instance of this kind of blundering I may cite the 

 following : — In Lepidoptera-Heterocera (Part xvi. p. 7) Walker 

 described a species of his genus Episparis as the type of a new 

 genus which he called Ncviasca, the type being N. varialis, from 

 India. 



At page 199 of the same volume of the Catalogue, a Bornean 

 species (belonging to a section of the genus Bertida, from which 

 it differs in the strongly pectinated antennae of the male) was 

 made the type of a new genus, to which the name Neviasca was 

 again given. 



When making up his Index, in vol. xix.. Walker discovered 

 this mistake ; therefore, at p. 888 of that volume, he altered the 

 name of the second genus Neviasca to Cardalena. Here one 

 would have supposed that the confusion might have ended. 



In vol. xxxiv., forgetting that he had already given a new 

 name to his second genus Neviasca, Walker proposed, at p. 1174, 

 to call the latter Gahrisa. 



At p. 1266 of the same volume he described an Australian 

 insect as the type of a new genus, to which he also gave the 

 name Gahrisa. 



Finally, in vol. xxxv., he proposed to alter the name of his 

 second genus Gahrisa to Voliha {vide p. 1983). 



And, in addition to all this confusion, one of the references 

 given in the Index to vol. xxxv. is incorrect. Can it be wondered 

 at that when we in England, with all the material before us, 

 find it difficult to unravel Walker's tangles, many foreigners 

 have been driven to throw up the almost impossible task in 

 despair. 



The case which I have cited is by no means unique, and 

 each one needs to be followed up step by step, and the facts accu- 

 rately recorded, before all difliculties can be smoothed away. 



SIX YEARS' ENTOMOLOGY IN CO. GALWAY. 



By the Hon. R. E. Dillon, 



(Continued from p. 91.) 



Acronycta lu/ustri. Fairly common. Comes to light, but chiefly 

 taken flying round privet and lime at dusk. 



Acronycta myricce var. )itontivaija. Two specimens taken in cop. 

 within fifty yards of the house, July, 1889. 



Diloba Cif.ruleocephala. Comes freely to light when the moth-trap 

 is placed high. I only took seven specimens this spring in the trap, 

 on the top of an old castle about seventy feet from the ground. 



