208 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



with a few pink scales; a creamy patch behind each dorsal 

 (hindmost) eye. Sides of cephalothorax black, the thoracic part 

 with a marginal silvery band. Quadrangle of eyes slightly widest 

 behind ; third pair of eyes nearer second than fourth. The four 

 front eyes touching (or almost so) ; first about twice diameter of 

 second. Under side, including palpi and mandibles, all dark 

 reddish brown. A few brilliantly iridescent metallic scales on 

 under side of abdomen toward the sides. Some white scales on 

 tibia and patella of last three pairs of legs, and conspicuously on 

 inner side of tibia and patella of first pair. Abdomen covered 

 with appressed hairs and scales, shining metallic yellowish 

 silvery, with a greenish tinge. A creamy-white band bordering 

 anterior half. Four small creamy-white marks, i. <?., two sub- 

 dorsal about middle of abdomen, and two larger elongate lateral 

 marks towards the end, representing a broadly interrupted band. 

 First pair of legs with stout femora ; coxa and femur brown- 

 black ; tibia and first half of tarsus dark red-brown ; last half of 

 tarsus orange-brown. Claws of all the legs black. The last three 

 pairs of legs have the coxa3 shining somewhat translucent reddish 

 brown ; femora brown-black (last pair with femora rather dark 

 brown) ; tibiae and first half of tarsi red-brown ; last half of tarsi 

 paler. Legs sparingly hirsute with dark hairs. Tibia of fore leg 

 with three black spines on inner side ; first joint of tarsus with 

 two larger black spines on inner side. Tibia of fore leg much 

 longer than patella, but not twice as long. The third leg has a 

 somewhat longer tarsus than the second, but the patella and 

 tibia is much shorter than in the second. 



From D. elegans, Hentz, it may at once be known by the close 

 proximity of the second eyes to the first ; whereas in elegans they 

 are separated from them by one-half their own diameter. The 

 eyes of the second row are also differently placed. 



Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S.A., May lltli, 1894. 



A CATALOGUE OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF IRELAND. 

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



(Continued from p. 126.) 



Cymatophora fluctuosa, Hh. — Very rare. The Irish speci- 

 mens which I have seen have the ground colour of a pearly 

 white, and the band dark grey, well marked. Killarney (/>.). 

 I took one near Cromaglaun Glen, on the Upper Lake. Two 

 near Kenmare (Miss V.), Co. Kerry; Rookwood, L. Gill, Co. 

 Sligo {Buss), where I also took two. 



[Aspltalia diluta and Jlavicornis. Mr. Birchall gives Killarney 

 as a locality for the former, and states the latter to be common 



