310 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



A CATALOGUE OF THE LEPIDOPTEKA OF IRELAND. 



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

 (Continued from p. 290.) 



LoBOPHOKA SEXALISATA, Hh. — Local and scarce. It has 

 occurred in localities in the north, south, east, and west, as 

 follows: — Derry, rare (C.) ; Killarney (Tore and Mucross), rare; 

 Glendalough, Co. Wicklow, one ; Clonbrock, Co. Galway, two 

 {R.E.D.). 



LoBOPHORA HALTERATA, Hufii. — Local, tliough widely distri- 

 buted, and more numerous in its haunts than the foregoing, but 

 it is rarely to be met with in Ireland, though I believe not 

 uncommon in many English counties. Recorded in 1872 as 

 abundant at Limerick, by Mr. Talbot ; Farnham, Cavan ; Favour 

 Eoyal, Tyrone, a few; Pontoon on L. Conn in Mayo, a few; 

 Clonbrock, Co. Galway, scarce (R.E.D.) ; Castle Bellingham, 

 Co. Louth, four {Tliornhill) ; and on an island in L. Erne {A.). 



LoBOPHORA viRETATA, Hh. — Widely distributed, local, and 

 fairly numerous in its haunts. Killarney {B.), where, at the 

 foot of Tore Mt., I also took a small series on the stems of 

 Scotch fir, a favourite resting-place for this species ; Cappagh, 

 Co. Waterford ; Bray (Bw,) and Powerscourt, several, Co. 

 Wicklow ; Farnham, Cavan ; Cookesborough, Co. Westmeath ; 

 Altadiawan, Co. Tyrone, one (M. F.) ; Drumreaske, Monaghan ; 

 Clonbrock, Co. Galway {R. E. D.). 



LoBOPHORA CARPiNATA, BorJc. — Altliougli, curiously enough, 

 this species escaped the notice of so active a collector as 

 Birchall, it. is to be found in most suitable localities in Ireland, 

 sometimes in considerable abundance. The usual Irish form is 

 similar to English specimens I have seen from Birmingbam and 

 other districts, being pale and slightly pencilled ; but at Clon- 

 brock, where I have found it one of the most abundant of spring 

 geometers, the two narrow bands across the centre of the fore 

 wing are strongly marked and slightly fuscous, and often 

 coalesce toward the inner margin. Such specimens as are in 

 my cabinet are mostly females, and Mr. Dillon informs me that 

 this aberration becomes proportionally more numerous as the 

 season advances, which would perhaps suggest that the character 

 is more developed in that sex. I have a few from Westmeath 

 and Tyrone, also strongly marked. No Irish examples, however, 

 that I have seen can compare with the dark-banded Scottish 

 form, either in the tone of shading of the bands, or in the 

 fuscous ground colour which characterizes many of them. A 

 green tinted variety I have taken in south Devon does not 

 appear to exist here. Limerick (Talbot) ; Killa,rney ; Favour 

 Eoyal, and Altadiawan, Tyrone ; near Derry (C and W. E. H.) ; 



