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Polia sp. ?. — During December and January a very handsome larva 

 was by no means uncommon feeding exposed upon various flowers, 

 especially those of a sweet-smelling narcissus. In October I bred several 

 of the moths, and they appear to come very near Polia xanthomista, 

 Hb., var. nigrocincta, Tr., although the larva? do not agree in any way 

 with Buckler's description. I will defer giving any description of the 

 larva until I have ascertained what the moth really is. 



Calocampa exoleta, L. — Larva? common in January and February, 

 feeding exposed upon a variety of wild flowers. 



Plusia gamma, L. — Common. 



Acontia luctuosa, Esp. — Common. 



Thalpochares ostrina, Hb. — Common. 



Thalpochares parva, Hb. — Common. 



Metoptria monogramma, Hb. — One example. 



Sterrha sacraria, L. — Common. 



Anaitis plagiata, L. — Several. 



Cidaria bilineata, L. — Common. 



Eupithecia pumilata, Hb. — Several bred. 



Botys ferrugalis, Hb. — Common. 



Nomophila noctuella, Schiff. — Abundant. 



I did no night-work, or the above list would no doubt have 



been much longer. 



(To be continued.) 



A CATALOGUE OF THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF IRELAND. 



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



(Continued from p. 64.) 



Camptogramma bilineata, L. — Extremely numerous every- 

 where. It presents every shade of variation from the bright 

 yellow form, with almost obsolete waved transverse lines, and 

 the pallid ab. (and var.) testaceolata, Stdgr., which occurs on the 

 limestone districts of Clare and Aran, to the black variety 

 isolata, Kane. Most of the variations occur with the type 

 everywhere ; but var. testaceolata and the banded aberration 

 appear to be somewhat topomorphic ; while the var. isolata is a 

 local form. A paper dealing with this subject appeared in the 

 'Irish Naturalist' of March, 1896, to which I would refer for 

 fuller details. Succinctly stated, the following is the gist of my 

 researches on the variation of this species. The form with the 

 margins of the median band, especially the outer one, shaded 

 with fuscous and sometimes edged with black, which I call the 

 "banded aberration," is found very widely both in Ireland and 

 Great Britain ; but is occasional and somewhat scarce, and is 

 rarely localised. It appears in company with clouded forms like 

 those from Unst on the margins of bogs in Connemara near 



