290 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



pointed out to me by Mr. Tutt\ whose larvae feed similarly on 

 fir-cones. 



EupiTHECiA PUMiLATA, Hb. — Everywhere numerous in both 

 emergences. 



EupiTHECiA coRONATA, Hb. — Widely spread, but not apparently 

 to be taken in numbers. Dublin, and Wicklow {B.) ; Drumreaske, 

 Monaghan ; Favour Royal, Tyrone ; near Derry (C.) ; shores of 

 L. Gill, Sligo ; near Kenmare, and at Killarney ; Crookhaven 

 and Glengarrifif, Co. Cork. 



EupiTHECiA RECTANGULATA, L. — I havo met with no remark- 

 able forms in Ireland. It is numerous in many localities. 

 Drumreaske, Monaghan ; Armagh (J.) ; Ballygawley, Tyrone ; 

 Tempo Manor, Enuiskillen (Langham) ; Castle Bellingbam, 

 Louth {Thornhill); Derry {W.E.H.); Eockwood, Sligo; Kil- 

 larney ; Clonbrock {R. E. D.) ; Galway, &c. 



EupiTHECiA DEBiLiATA, Hb. — Locally abundant in a few places. 

 Tore Wood, Killarney ; Markree and Eockwood, near Sligo ; 

 Glendalough, Co. Wicklow ; Dromana, Co. Waterford ; Clon- 

 brock, Co. Galway, one {R. E.D.). 



(To be continued.) 



RE -APPEARANCE OF DEILEPHILA GALII ON THE 

 LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE COAST. 



By THE Rev. A. Miles Moss. 



Deilephila galii has been in the district again and we have all 

 but missed it ! If you tell your friends you are going to search 

 for I), galii they laugh at you, and suggest that you might as 

 well go out to look for gold watches ! And this is the way we 

 lose the prize. 



No one will deny that the genuine, hnrd- working, field ento- 

 mologist is a true sample of that dogged persistency of which 

 we English, as a nation, are proud. He has made up his mind 

 that he is not going to be beaten, and that no pains shall be 

 spared when there is any reasonable chance of success. 



But in a case like the present he is not always on the alert, 

 and is sometimes apt to be behind the times. I know it has 

 been so with me this year, or I should have been able to furnish 

 the pages of the ' Entomologist ' with a glowing record. 



But to proceed. On Sunday, Sept. 12th, Mr. Prince, an 

 entomological friend, told me that D. galii had turned up some- 

 where on the Welsh coast, and he suggested the possibility of it 

 also occurring at Wallasey. So, determined to give the place a 



