Q THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
place, at Derrycunnihy waterfall, an enthusiastic entomologist 
was to be seen up to his waist in the water, waving a huge net, 
utterly regardless of the presence of the distinguished visitors. 
Now as your correspondent happened to be present on the 
occasion in question, and neither carried a net nor saw anyone 
else with one, he must be pardoned for saying that the whole 
incident was developed out of the inner consciousness of the 
gentleman of the press who wrote the account. He doubtless 
learned from the gamekeeper that an entomologist was one of a 
small knot of persons who attended the arrival of the royal party ; 
and the description represents what he thought would be appro- 
priate conduct for one of so crack-brained a confraternity. The 
water must have been cold, however, for agreeable wading. 
This warm weather, coupled with some rainfall about the 
20th, hastened the vegetation, which was hitherto retarded, so 
that in a day or two the birch trees burst into leaf. In spite of 
the wet I remained till the 25th, and made a very fair collection, 
Boarmia cinctaria being the chief species sought for. Again on 
June 8th I revisited Killarney, and stayed three weeks, bringing 
a tent with me, which was suspended from the bough of an oak 
growing hard by the lodge of one of Lord Kinmare’s game- 
keepers, and close to the road which skirts the shores of the 
Upper Lake. More than one naturalist has been fain to content 
himself with the rough accommodation of Tower Lodge, the 
intelligent and kindly inmates of which I shall always remember 
with pleasure, as worthy examples of that genial hospitality and 
true refinement of sentiment which so often distinguish the better 
class of the Irish peasantry. Behind was a park-like glade, 
wooded with stately oaks, under whose shade ran a clear stream, 
which, rising from its sources among the heights of the Crom-a- 
Glaun Mountain, crept down through heather and brake, past 
cliff and scaur, until, leaping headlong over a picturesque 
precipice, it fell into the valley. The sound of this cascade filled 
the ear at night; and in the early dawn the red deer used to come 
and drink, and stare at the new addition to their scenery which I 
had erected. The country people, too, wondered much at it. 
Some thought it for the illicit sale of ‘‘ refreshments ;” others 
that it was connected in some way with photography; while my 
host roguishly explained to all enquirers that it was a Land 
League hut! 
