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in the autumn. Howth, Kingstown, Phcenix Park, and else- 

 where near Dublin; Co. Wicklow (B.); Cappagh, Co. Waterford, 

 numerous ; near Kenmare, Co. Kerry ; Mallow, Co. Cork 

 {Stawell) ; Clonbrock {R. E. D.), and Kylemore {Hon. Emily 

 Laidess), Co. Galway ; Markree Castle, Sligo ; Tempo Manor 

 (Langham) and Enniskillen. 



BoARMiA ciNCTARiA, Scliif. — A local species, probably having 

 a far more general distribution than appears from my list of 

 localities. Most of the great tracts of moor and mountain scrub 

 in Ireland probably harbour this handsome insect ; but at the 

 early season of its emergence these wild districts are rarely 

 explored by the entomologist. The females are frequently very 

 small and inconspicuously marked. A larger jDroportion of the 

 males in Killarney and Glenveagh, Co. Donegal, are strikingly 

 barred with white or pale grey than is met with, I believe, in 

 the New Forest, being generally characterised by darker bands 

 strongly contrasting with a pale ground colour. Again, we find 

 that the very different climate and rainfall of Donegal and Kerry 

 does not appear to have differentiated the pale and dark varietal 

 forms. One example from Colonel Cooper's woods near Markree 

 Castle, Sligo, has all the wings whitish grey traversed only by a 

 brown basal band, and a slightly pencilled, festooned, elbowed 

 line crossing both pairs of wings ; with a faint subapical shading 

 on fore wing, and a trace of a submarginal line on the hind 

 wing. The imago being frequently found on birch trunks, it is 

 possible that where these are frequent, natural selection has 

 encouraged the paler forms. There are few handsomer geometers 

 in a cabinet than a good series of variable Irish B. cinctaria. 

 Common at Killarney ; and Glenveagh, Co. Donegal {W. E. H.) ; 

 and has occurred sparingly at Clonbrock, Co. Galway (R.E. D.); 

 Markree Castle, Sligo; and Kells, Co. Meath {Mrs. Cuppage). 



Tephrosia consonaria, Hb. — Stated by Mr. Birchall to be 

 "common in Wicklow and Kerry." At Derrycunihy and 

 Mucross, Killarney, I have taken it in moderate abundance, but 

 the Wicklow habitat must be a strictly limited one. Professor 

 Hart, Mr. M. Fitzgibbon, and myself have collected frequently 

 in spring in various parts of the wooded districts of Wicklow, 

 from Powerscourt to Arklow, but have never met with it. The 

 only other locality I know of is Clonbullogue, King's Co. {E. S.). 



Tephrosia biundularia, Bork. — Some years ago I recorded 

 the capture of T. crepuscularia, Hb., from Ireland, but subsequent 

 enquiry, and a more extended acquaintance with the present 

 species, compel me to retract the statement. Eepresentative 

 series of the Irish insect have been sent to Mr. Tutt and other 

 English adherents of the dual theory, and they have all been 

 referred to T. biundularia, Bork. For some years, like other 



