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which has a grey ground with two basal strigse, and the middle 

 band indicated by two waved dark lines inside, and three outside 

 the discoidal spot ; the apical angle and outer margin shaded 

 with fuscous brown. I notice that Mr. Prout gives ab. corculata, 

 Lampa, as a synonym of the type. It would, however, appear 

 that this in an error. Another Scandinavian example is the 

 ordinary broad-banded type, but less ruddy than the English. 

 Mr. Prout notices that the striated form occurs only as an 

 aberration in England, though here it is distinctly local at 

 Altadiawan in Tyrone, where Mr. M. Fitzgibbon took a good 

 series in my company, also in places in Monaghan, Westmeath, 

 and Sligo. It is variable, however, within limits, and I cannot 

 say if it is referable to var. salicaria, Haw., which Mr. Prout 

 appears to think may have been an extreme striated form 

 of the Kannoch type. He considers some of the Irish forms 

 referable to var. linareata, Gn. As to the character of the 

 middle band, which is in some cases broad at the costa and 

 narrowed towards the inner margin, the inconstancy of the 

 species precludes the possibility of defining a variety from this 

 alone, as every gradation occurs, short of the form coarctata; 

 Warren, in which the attenuation is extreme, and which I have 

 never met with. Borkhausen's spadicearia occurs with us. A 

 very fuscous example, perhaps similar to the one 555 figured by 

 Wood (of which I have here no copy), was taken by me at 

 Favour Pioyal. The fore wings are almost a unicolorous fuscous 

 brown, with the broad band and twin spots hardly to be dis- 

 tinguished. The hind wings also are very dark. I am of opinion 

 that this species is more frequently met with in Ireland than the 

 following. Kippure Mt., Co. Wicklow; Cappagh, Co. Waterford; 

 Kenmare and Killarney ; Clonbrock, Merlin Park, and elsewhere 

 in Galway, not rare ; near Sligo ; Killynon, Co. Westmeath ; 

 Farnham, Cavan; Drumreaske, Monaghan; Favour Royal and 

 Altadiawan, Co. Tyrone, plentiful; Armagh, and the shores 

 of L. Neagh (J.); Enniskillen (A) and Tempo Manor (Lang- 

 ham) ; Castle Bellingham (Thornh'dl) , &c. 



Coeemia unidentaria, Haw. — Both the black- and purple- 

 banded forms occur, and I have found them in the same locality 

 at Altadiawan, Tyrone, Enniskillen (A.), Tempo Manor, Castle 

 Bellingham, and Ardtully, Co. Kerry. Other localities are 

 Armagh {J.); Clonbrock (purple-band), Co. Galway; Killarney, 

 do.; Donegal, do.; Cappagh, Co. Waterford (black). 



(To be continued.) 



