THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Vou. XIX.) JANUARY, 1886. [No. 272. 
THE SEASON OF 1885 IN IRELAND. 
Byaw. Eo pe- Vaetann, BS: 
My experience as an entomologist of the past season may be 
worth recording, for the sake of comparison with that of English 
confreres. 
The summer of 1884 having been genial, and with a larger 
amount of sunshine than has been vouchsafed us for many years 
past, I reckoned upon an abundant harvest of Lepidoptera as a 
result; but in this my expectations have been falsified, at least 
so far as successful captures are concerned. 
The sallows came into bloom rather later than usual,—about 
the first week in April; and about the middle of the month I 
found myself in Killarney. I could not complain of the scarcity 
of Teniocampe or hybernated Noctuz of various species, nor of 
the various Geometre which were to be beaten out or taken at 
rest in the daytime; the month being unusually mild, so much 
so that during the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to 
these lakes we were favoured with truly “royal weather,” the sun 
being very powerful. Apropos of their Royal Highnesses’ visit, an 
event which aroused an excitement here, proportioned, alas, to 
its rarity, I may perhaps be allowed to refer to a description 
given in the London * Standard’ and the Dublin ‘ Freemason’s 
Journal,’ in which, by way of adding to the vivacity of their 
narrative, describing the progress of the royal party down the 
Upper Lake, they recorded, with striking and suggestive 
unanimity, that when the boats were arriving at the landing- 
ENTOM.—JAN., 1886. B 
