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a fine Luperina cespitis at light ; the lamps also yielding Hydr(xcia micacea, 

 Ennomos alniaria (tiliaria), (a fine specimen as late as Oct. 5th), Plusia 

 chnjsitis, Eubolia cervinaria, Cidaria miata, and a few common Noctuse — a 

 sorry record. — Joseph Anderson, Jun. 



Lepidoptera at Clone rock, Co. Galway. — Although the weather has 

 been unfavourable during this summer, and moths generally scarce, I 

 have obtained some interesting specimens. In the spring, at sallow, Tamio- 

 campa gracilis was very abundant, especially on dwarf sallow {Salix repens); 

 on one patch a few yards wide I boxed fifty-four in one night. T. opima 

 fairly numerous; Mr. Kane and I took about fifty in all. The moth-trap 

 attracted some fine Biston hirtaria, but only one specimen of Eurymene 

 doluhraria and Amphidasys strataria. Last autumn several Hybernia rupi- 

 capraria and aurantiaria were taken, which I omitted in the list in the 

 March, May, and June numbers of the ' Entomologist ' [ante, pp. 88, 169, 

 190.) Macroglossa homhyliformis was taken for the first time here, Hying 

 over Lychnis. At sugar some very raelanic specimens of Aplecta nehulosa 

 and three quite black Boannia repandata vvere taken flying. The most 

 important additions to the Irish list, as Mr. Kane informs me, are single 

 specimens of Ophiodes limaris, Xylophasia scolopacina, Leucania turca, and 

 titauropiis fagi (smaller and darker than Mr. Kane's two Kerry specimens), 

 and one larva of the same feeding on birch. These were taken by my 

 gamekeeper in my absence between June 1st and Aug. 1st, with many 

 other less important insects; he brought me also the fragments of one 

 Hepialus sylvaims, which he informed me had been eaten by a mouse out 

 of a box lynig on a shelf. Owing to illness I have been unable to work 

 myself. The following list contains the rarer insects, and those new to this 

 place : — Single specimens of Nola confusalis, Hylophila pra&inana, Acro- 

 nycta menyanthidis, Asphalia fiavicornis, Rusina tenebrosa, and Agrotis 

 saucia ; five specimens of Fterostoma ]ialpina ; several TriphcBiia orbona, 

 Hufn. [subsequa, Hb.), very ruddy, resembling Scotch insects. On scabious, 

 one Noctiui dahlii, and one Cerastis erythrocephala, resembling the two 

 which Mr. South kindly identified for me as an intermediate form between 

 the type and var. glabra ; single specimens of Hecatera chrysozona, Xylina 

 soda, Asteroscopus sphinx (male), Plusia intenogationis, Habrostola tri- 

 plasia, Chariclea umbra, Pericallia syringaria, Tephrosia jmnctularia, 

 Cidaria corylata. One remarkable Numeria pulveraria has the central 

 transverse baud of the front wings strongly margined with black. Several 

 specimens of Epunda licheiiea, Xylina ornithopus, Plusia festuccB, Bapta 

 temerata, three Halia vauaria, and Cidaria dotata, L. (of the latter, 

 Mr. Kane took a perfectly fresh specimen on Oct. 3rdi; one Polia jiavi- 

 cincta and a specimen of Xanthia gilvago. Cheimatobia boreata seems to 

 be faily common here. Larvae have been very scarce all the year, and are 

 very late, three small Notodonta dictceoides being found on Oct. 3rd, while 

 Acronycta leporina has not yet pupated. I wish to correct errata in 

 my former list, as Taniocampa immda has not occurred here ; and the four 

 specimens 1 took to be Hadena contigua have been identified as H. dis- 

 similis.—R. E. Dillon ; Clonbrock, Ahascragh, Ireland, Oct. 7th, 1894. 



Rhopalocera from Bournemouth and District. — Since coming to 

 Bournemouth I have seen or taken the following butterflies, viz. : — Colias 

 edusa (male), taken by a collector in Branksome Chine, Aug. 31st. Ehodo- 

 cera rhamni (male), seen in the Poole Bead, Sept. 2nd. Thecla nibi, one 



