THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 861 
be uninteresting to some of your readers. In the first place, 
I must say I did not work very hard at insects, my attention 
being divided between insect-hunting, fishing, scenery and 
gaining health, and the weather all the time being very 
unfavourable, nothing but dry north-east or north-west winds 
prevailing from the 4th of May, on my arrival in Dublin, till 
the 6th of June, the day I left Kingston for Holyhead on my 
return, and with very little rain,—I only required to use my 
umbrella twice the whole time,—which, they tell me, is 
something unusual for Ireland, which is considered the 
Niobe of nations. Jnsects—as a rule, in Ireland—appeared 
to me to be very scarce, except, perhaps, the Diptera; but I 
was much struck with the great numbers of M. Cardamines 
flying all along, on sunny days, the banks of the railways 
and the roads throughout the whole of Ireland which I 
visited ; it was certainly the most abundant butterfly; next, 
R. Rhamni, hybernated specimens ; then the small tortoise- 
shell (V. Urticz) and peacock (V. Io) frequently put in an 
appearance; and two species of the common Pontias and 
P. Alexis and T. Rubi were abundant near Killarney: and 
this completes the list of butterflies which came in my way. 
In marshy places, near the Middle and also the Upper Lake, 
EK. Bankiana was very common, flying over the heath with a 
common species of Crambus, but, strange to say, I did not 
fall in with Uncana; but I was very pleased to meet with 
parties who saw alive several specimens of Notodonta 
bicolora, or Micholora as they call it, there taken by the 
late Peter Bouchard; and I was pointed out a birch tree, 
where he found a specimen at rest on the trunk. I was too 
early myself for this insect; but I spent a day in the planta- 
tions, where they were taken, and found it very hard work, 
not being at the time very well. I dont see any reason why 
this insect should not occur again there, if any good collector 
could spend a few weeks on the spot, and is not afraid of 
hard work and getting wet feet in the swampy boggy places 
where it occurs. Coleoplera were generally very scarce and, 
what I met with, nearly all very common. I annex a list of 
the species found, kindly determined by Dr. Power, with 
their localities; those from Ballina occurred mostly in Sir 
Arthur Gore’s park, about a mile from the town; they were 
principally taken on the 20th May. From this place I went 
