A CATALOGUE OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF IRELAND. \) 



Hemithea strigata, Miill. 

 Nemoria strigata, Meyr. 

 Occurs in Arnurland, Japan, Yesso, Kiushiu, Corea. 

 Geometra papilionaria, Linn. 

 Occurs in East Siberia, Arnurland, Japan, and Yesso. Typical. 



Nemoria viridata, Linn. 



Has been recorded from Arnurland and Corea, and Mr. Leech 

 refers specimens received from Central and Western China to 

 this species. 



Iodis (Thalera) lactearia, Linn. 



Euchloris lactearia, Meyr. 

 Occurs in Arnurland, Corea, Yesso, and North-eastern China. 



A CATALOGUE OF THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF IRELAND. 



By W. F. de Vismes Kane, M.A., M.B.I.A., F.E.S. 



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Hypsipetes trifasciata, Bork. — Although the alder is so 

 common a tree in all parts of Ireland, this species, so far as my 

 experience goes, appears to be somewhat localized. It presents 

 the usual wide range of variation, sometimes with a dark green 

 ground colour (IF.) ; but I have not met with the almost uni- 

 colorous brown form. A very remarkable variation I have from 

 Drumreaske and near Favour Royal, Tyrone, has a whitish 

 ground colour with very little dusting of dark scales, traversed by 

 two slight scalloped lines across the central and basal areas. 

 The fringes are dusky, and on the costa one or two dark marks, 

 indicating other suppressed transverse bars. Judging from the 

 rather small Irish series I possess, the Irish insect seems to tend 

 toward pale rather than dark forms. Localities : The Rev. J. 

 Greene found pup® under moss on alder-trees at Rathfarnham, 

 Co. Dublin (B.) ; Powerscourt, Co. Wicklow, abundant ; Howth 

 (G. V. H.) ; Favour Royal, Co. Tyrone ; Drumreaske, Co. 

 Monaghan; Enniskillen (^4.) and Tempo Manor (Langham) ; 

 Cromlyn, Co. Westmeath (Mrs. B.) ; Sligo (Buss.) ; Derry, 

 abundant (C.) ; Colin Glen, &c, near Belfast, very numerous 

 (W.) ; Castle Bellingham, Co. Louth (Thornhill). 



Hypsipetes sordidata, Fb. — One of our most abundant 

 moths, and as variable here as elsewhere in the United Kingdom. 

 Only one of the ab. fusco-undata has come under my notice, from 

 Farnham, Cavan. The var. infuscata, Stgr., has not yet been 

 recorded from Ireland. At Altadiawan, Tyrone, I took a number 

 of the larvae, nearly full-fed, from bilberry [Vaccinium myrtillus), 



