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Coremia munitata, Hb.— Local and not usually plentiful, but 

 widely distributed. Dark forms occur near Derry and Banagher, 

 in which the central band of the fore wing is of dark fuscous 

 brown, with the margins suffused internally into the ground 

 colour. I have seen no approach to the ruddy Shetland form. 

 Belfast (Bw.) ; Slieye Croob, Co. Down (W.) ; near Derry, locally 

 numerous (G.) ; Drumreaske Monaghan ; Favour Royal and 

 Altadiawan, Co. Tyrone ; Cromlyn (Mrs. B.) and Killynon (Miss 

 Pi,.), Westmeath; near Sligo (Iiuss) ; Toberdaly and near 

 Banagher on the Shannon, King's Co. ; Clonbrock (R. E. D.) 

 and Ballinasloe, Co. Galway. 



Coremia designata, Hufn. — Widely distributed, but some- 

 what local. The central band varies extremely, sometimes 

 being proportionately as broad as that of C. muniata, and the 

 edges only slightly more strongly margined with black ; while 

 others have merely a black blotch at the costa narrowing off to 

 a broad line at the inner margin. Many have a rich purplish 

 tinge on the central portion of the band, in others it does not 

 differ from the rest of the wing in colour. In some, too, the 

 black margins of the band coalesce toward the costa, enclosing a 

 ruddy patch. I have noticed an abundant emergence of the 

 second flight in the Co. Galway, and at Mote Park, Roscommon, 

 about the third week of August. Abundant at Powerscourt (B.) 

 and Glenchree, Co. Wicklow ; Howth, Co. Dublin ; Killarney 

 and Kenmare ; Clonbrook, abundant, and Ardrahan, Co. Galway; 

 Mote Park, Co. Roscommon ; Hollybrook, near Boyle ; Favour 

 Royal and Altadiawan, Co. Tyrone ; Tollymore Park, Co. Down 

 (W.). 



Coremia ferrugata, Clerck (?) L. — In dealing with this and 

 the following species I shall follow the careful paper of Mr. Louis 

 B. Prout, read before the Entomological Society of London, 

 March, 1894. This moth has a wide distribution in Ireland, but 

 is somewhat localized. On dry slopes and banks on the edges 

 of moors or hilly wastes it sometimes is extremely abundant. 

 Of the varieties dealt with by Mr. Prout I have never seen the 

 really black-banded form, though occasionally specimens with a 

 broad dark purple band occur, like that of C. unide?itaria. The 

 Irish insect shows a distinctly Northern facies. For although 

 the non-striated broad-banded forms of the South of England 

 are represented, yet the general run are more distinctly barred 

 with strigse, and are more tinted with ochreous. But in several 

 localities a strongly striated form occurs, with a very ochreous 

 ground colour, the central band sometimes broken up with dark 

 streaks. The extreme of this form is represented by a specimen 

 from Tyrone, approximating closely (except in the ground colour 

 being ochreous, and the strigse not so sharply denned) to a 

 Scandinavian example labelled by Sven Lampa var. corculata, 



