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PTEROPHORI. 



Platyptilia bertrami, Rossi. — Widely distributed, but local. 

 Howtb (G. V.H.), Kingstown, and the " Strawberry-beds" near 

 Lucan, Co. Dublin ; Farnham, Co. Cavan ; Arrnagb (J.) ; and 

 local near Belfast (W.) ; Glendalough, in Connemara; near 

 Sligo (E,) ; Coolmore, Co. Donegal {J.) ; Dunmore, Co. Water- 

 ford, &c. 



Platyptilia isodactylus, Zell. — Local, but abundant in its 

 habitats. Birchall found it sparingly in Cromaglaun Glen, near 

 Tower Lodge, on the Upper Lake of Killarney, in August. It 

 also occurs on the opposite shore, in marshy spots at the foot 

 of the Eagle's Nest Mountain, where I took it in some numbers, 

 in company with W. Salvage, in the first week in June. I have 

 also specimens from Markree Castle, Co. Sligo, and Moycullen, 

 Co. Galway. 



Platyptilia gonodactyla, Schiff. — Howth and Clontarf, 

 Co. Dublin (B.) ; abundant near Belfast (W.) ; Armagh (J.). I 

 have specimens from other localities, but unfortunately have 

 lost the label references. 



Platyptilia tesseradactyla, L. — In June, 1895, I took, at 

 Ardrahan, two plumes which I thought to be like P. zetterstedti. 

 The following year, at Clonbrock, in the same county, when in 

 company with the Hon. B. E. Dillon, I met with two species of 

 plumes, in a clearing of a plantation where Antennaria dioica 

 grows plentifully. One proved on inspection to be Acijytilia tetra- 

 dactyla, and the other, of which I took a series of five or six, I 

 recognized to be the new species met with at Ardrahan. Mr. Dillon 

 recognized it at once as one which occurred numerously about 

 that clearing, and showed me in his store-boxes a series captured 

 there a year or two before. When sending a box of Eiqnthecice 

 and Micro-Lepidoptera to Mr. C. G. Barrett subsequently, I put 

 in a specimen, which was in due course identified by him and 

 Lord Walsingham as tesseradactyla, L. A third locality has 

 been discovered this year, namely, Dromoland Castle, Co. Clare, 

 the seat of Lord Inchiquin. It appears, however, to be scarce 

 there, for in the present summer I repeatedly searched consider- 

 able areas covered with the food-plant, but in vain ; till one 

 evening the Hon. Edward O'Brien caught a single specimen on 

 the edge of a plantation. From the similar character of these 

 three localities, so widely apart, it is probable that many other 

 stony pasturages of the west of Clare and Galway may preserve 

 settlements of this moth, elsewhere unknown in the British 

 Islands. It is easily disturbed from the food-plant on a sunny 

 day. Mr. Dillon and myself transplanted some large sods of the 

 food-plant in the autumn, with the result that he introduced a 

 small colony of these plumes into another part of the Clonbrock 



