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EuGONiA FuscANTARiA, Hciw. — I liave iiever met with this 

 species, and record it doubtfully, as the var. infuscata of 

 E. qaerciiiaria is easily confounded with it. The only two 

 records are Clonbrock {R.E.D.), and at Mallow Mr. Francis 

 Stawell writes that it is fairly abundant. 



EuGONiA ERosARiA, Borlc. — Very rare. Cork and Derry (5.) ; 

 one at Howth, Co. Dublin ; four at Clonbrock {K. E. D.). 



EuG0NL\ QUERciNARiA, Hiifii. — Comuion in many places {B.), 

 but restricted to locality. Near Derry (C) ; Hazlewood, Co. 

 Sligo ; Mote Park, Roscommon ; Clonbrock. The var. infuscata 

 usually occurs with the type. 



HiMERA PENNARiA, L. — Appears to be local, but numerous in 

 some wooded districts. Mr. Birchall took it abundantly, but has 

 not recorded the localities. Killarney ; Clonbrock, by Mr. Dillon 

 and myself; Markree Castle, Sligo; Cromlyn, Co. Westmeath 

 (Mrs. B.) ; near Derry, a few (C) ; Armagh {J.) ; Ballygawley 

 and Favour Royal, Tyrone ; Carrickmines, &c., Co. Dublin ; 

 Devil's Glen, Co. Wicklow. 



Phigalia pedaria, Fh. — Decidedly scarce in Ireland, though 

 widely distributed. Belfast is the only district whence it is 

 reported (by Mr. Watts) as frequent ; and the type there is large 

 and pale, with distinct markings. The Rev. James Bristow also 

 reports it thence from Colin Glen. Examples have been taken 

 at the following localities: near Derry (ir. ^. -fZ^.) ; Sligo (/^.) ; 

 Clonbrock {ll.E.D.) and near Galway (.4.); Cromlyn {Mrs. B.) 

 and Killynon {Miss II.), Westmeath; Tullamore, King's Co.; 

 Armagh {J.) ; Phcenix Park and elsewhere in Co. Dublin. 



Nyssia zonaria, Scltiff. — Mr. Campbell, of Derry, was the 

 first to discover an Irish babitat for this species, having taken 

 the larvse several years ago at Ballycastle, Co. Antrim, some of 

 which were forwarded to me for identification. The imago was sub- 

 sequently captured freely by Mr. Bristow and others. An example 

 has also been forwarded to the Dublin Natural History Museum 

 by Mr. Sheridan, the intelligent proprietor of the hotel, Achill L, 

 off the coast of Mayo. In 1896 Mr. Halbert, of the Dublin 

 Museum, Mr. Dillon, and myself took a good many specimens 

 near Slyne Head and at Roundstone on the Connemara coast. 

 It seemy probable in view of the wide separation of these 

 localities that most of the numerous sandhills which extend 

 along the Mayo and Connemara littoral will be found to harbour 

 colonies of this species. Mr. Dillon contributes a remarkable 

 record (Ent. xxvii. 190) of the occurrence of larvae at Clon- 

 brock in the same county, but some thirty miles inland, from 

 which he had bred a female on August 19th, 1891, which, when 

 taken to the locality frequented by the larvae, attracted a wild 

 male. The only note of an autumnal season of emergence, 



