210 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Irish inqyar is quoted from a paper of mine on South of Ireland 

 Lepidoptera, pubHshed in the ' Proceedings of the Eoyal Irish 

 Academy ' (vol. iv. p. 113) : — " This variety differs from the type 

 by its blurred delineation, the sharp black lines of Bryopliila 

 miiralis being replaced by ill-defined shadings ; the black spots 

 on costa being, however, retained as in type. In the lighter 

 specimens the clear ground colour of type is replaced by a faded 

 greenish or yellowish dusty grey, marked with dusky shadings, 

 the black ante-marginal line being replaced by a pale one, having 

 a dark external blotch where it touches the inner margin. Tlie 

 darker examples have a dark olive-grey ground colour, with darker 

 suffused shadings, especially three blotches external to the ante- 

 marginal line, of which the one resting on the inner margin is 

 always the deepest in tone. Intermediate between the pallid 

 obsolete form and the melanic one just described is a series 

 differing in depth of ground colour and shading, the blotch above 

 described being always the darkest mark on the wing. All four 

 wings have a slight black line at the Ijase of the cilia. The 

 thorax of this variety also is more or less dusted with minute 

 black specks." 



Bryophila perla, Fb. — Common and widely distributed. 

 The type is frequent in the South, as well as occurring in Co. 

 Down, at Newcastle (IF.) ; Armagh {J.) ; Co. Galway {Mr. Dillon) ; 

 and in Co. Dublin, where, at Howth (G. V. H.), has been also 

 taken the ochreous tinted form Jlavescens, Tutt. 



B0MJ3YC0I1J.E. 



Mom A ORION, Esjj. — The Hon. E. E. Dillon sent me one of 

 three specimens of this species, taken at Clonbrock, Co. Galway, 

 and mentioned having also found larva;, which, however, he 

 failed to rear. Also, on July 19th, ISd'd, we were at Mote Park, 

 Co. Eoscommon, when he saw, but failed to take, an imago. 

 {Cf. ' Entomologist,' vol. xxvii. p. 91.) 



Demas coryli, L.— Distributed throughout Ireland, but not 

 met with generally in large numbers, except occasionally in the 

 larval stage. The imago varies in the strength of the brown 

 band on the fore wings, which sometimes almost obliterates the 

 stigmatic and waved markings ; while in others the band is only 

 slightly represented, and one has been taken at Clonbrock, by the 

 Hon. E. E. Dillon, in which it is obsolete. Co. Donegal, liun- 

 crana, and " common in the woods about L. Swilly " (C.) ; Co. 

 Sligo, Knocknarea {II.) and Markree ; Co. Eoscommon, Holly- 

 brook ; Co. Tyrone, common about Favour Eoyal and Altadiawan ; 

 Co. Monaghan, Drumreaske ; Co. Cavan, Parnham ; Co. Galway, 

 common at Ardrahan {Miss N.), and Clo^ibrock {E. E. JJ.) ; 

 Co. Wicklow, Powerscourt, and Glendalough; Co. Waterford, 

 generally spread ; Co. Kerry, Killarney. 



