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blandiata, Eupitliecia snbumbrata, E. constrictata, E. pyg- 

 maeata, Melantbia albicillata, Melanippe hastata, M. tiistaia, 

 Acronycta Aceiis, A. Liguslri, Nonagiia despecla, Xylophasia 

 snblustris, Apamea gemina, Miana expolita, Triphsena sub- 

 sequa, Noctua dilrapeziiim, N. neglecta, Epunda Uitulenta, 

 Aplecta herbida, Cucullia Chamomilla?, Plusia V-aureum, 

 Ennychia octoraaculalis, Rbodaiia saiiguinalis. 



The Park is freely open to the collector; at least I have 

 wandered through it for a week together, by day and by 

 night, without meeting a human being or any other obstruc- 

 tion ; and so abundant is insect life that unless the collector 

 has very moderate desires he had better have large pockets 

 to hold his captures. 



There are no inns in the Minos country. Galway is 

 fifteen or twenty miles distant, and the peasantry, though 

 hospitable to excess, live in very uninviting habitations. 

 I remember hearing a story which may serve to indicate the 

 sort of accommodation the traveller is likely to meet with : 

 the circumstance occurred, the narrator said (with some little 

 confusion of historical personages), when Queen Elizabeth 

 sent the " bloody Crummel" (Cromwell) over into Ireland. 

 A captain and a corporal were quartered on a small farmer, 

 and when shown to their beds the captain, who was to have 

 " the best bed," took possession of Pat's own. " And which 

 is mine ?" said the corporal ; " I'm to have the second best." 

 " Oh," says Pat, " but that's bad for Morgan ! " " Who's 

 Morgan, ye villain ! " said the corporal. " Why, the pig, to 

 be sure," replied their host ; " he sleeps in the second-best 

 bed." 



Edwin Birchall. 



Bradford, Jan. 1, 1866. 



Nucha Ancilla a British Insect. By Edward Newman. 



The family Syntomides comprises a number of day-flying 

 sun-loving insects, of small or moderate size, and having 

 semidiaphanous wings. Their larvae are intermediate in 

 structure between those of the Zygaenidae and Nolidoe, and 

 spin up in silken cocoons. Four species, belonging to two 

 genera, are registered as inhabitants of Continental Europe : 

 these are : — 



