106 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
times being beaten out at the same time from the same tree. A 
specimen of Cidaria suffumata, taken on July 3rd, was apparently 
just out. Is this species sometimes double-brooded? During 
this month I captured more than one of an interesting variety of 
Lycena warus (alexis); the upper side of hind wings has a 
distinct marginal row of black spots. With August appears the 
army of Agrotide; Agrotis vestigialis (valligera), A. cursoria, 
A. precox, A. tritici in their many varieties, swarmed on the 
sand-hills. The novelties were Melanippe galiata, Botys asinalis, 
and on the last of the month, at flowers of tobacco, Sphinx 
convolvuli. Cherocampa celerio I believe I saw; it is not 
impossible, as a specimen was captured in the neighbourhood 
a few years since. The white-flowered tobacco (I think it is 
Nicotiana affinis) appears to me to be well worth growing; the 
flowers should prove very attractive to the Sphingide. In 
September the weather became stormy ; Hpunda lutulenta, vars. 
lunebergensis and sedi, were the prizes during that month. They 
occurred in greater numbers than in previous years. On the 
17th I captured fifteen, but unfortunately nearly all were 
damaged, and most of them I let go again. Stilbia anomala, only 
one (at light); Noctua glareosa, Anchocelis lunosa, Luperina 
testacea, in all shades of gray and brown, were numerous. 
Ivy, during October and up to the end of November, was very 
attractive, my captures including Miselia oxyacanthe, Calocampa 
vetusta and C. exoleta, Orthosia lota and O. macilenta, Cerastis 
vaccinu, Anchocelis pistacina, Xanthia circellaris (ferruginea), 
Xylina socia (petrificata), Cidaria siterata (psittacata) and C. 
miata, and Thera variata. 
Sugar, throughout the entire season, was an absolute failure; 
such species as Noctua dahlii, Hadena contiqua, H. thalassina, 
H. adusta, Triphena fibrosa, Xylophasia sublustris, abundant in 
1884, were not seen; and even T’hyatira batis and X. monoglypha 
(polyodon) refused to be tempted. Probably the dry summer, 
and the unusual number of Aphides causing every leaf to be 
sticky with honeydew, may explain these anomalies. 
Cullemamore, Sligo, January, 1886. 
