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examples the last joint is divided into two. However 

 this may be, the antennae of" my examples were of the form 

 represented in the figure. Their colour was black ; the first 

 two joints, however, having gray margins. 



The thorax, above and beneath, is shining black; legs 

 yellow, with brown claws; the ends of the tibiae and of the 

 separate joints of the tarsi of the posterior legs being 

 griseous. The penultimate joint of the tarsi is pointedly 

 prolonged on the under side. 



The wings are somewhat dark, blackish, but iridescent; 

 the anterior wings darker than the posterior ; the anterior 

 margin and the stigma are brownish. There is an indication 

 of the commencement of a nervure, which would divide the 

 first submarginal cell into two, the normal neuration in 

 Tenthredo. 



The cenchri are whitish. Abdomen pale orange ; the last 

 two segments are bordered with black on the upper margin, 

 the valves of the ovipositor being also black. The form of 

 saw and ovipositor is represented at fig. 8 : they seem to me 

 to have most resemblance to the same organs in Selandria 

 ovata. 



Although this life-history is so far imperfect, that descrip- 

 tions of the egg and the pupa state of the insect are wanting, 

 I have thought it as well to call attention to the abnormal 

 features in its habit and the form of the larva, hoping to be 

 able to fill in the picture at some future time. 



Irish Captures in 1870 and 1871, 

 By the Hon. Emily Lawless. 



I now send an account of some of the more interesting 

 Lepidoptera I have taken during the two past seasons. 

 Those recorded for 1870 were captured in a very out-of-the- 

 way corner of Ireland, or rather not in Ireland proper at all, 

 but on a little island of some fifteen acres, lying about 

 a quarter of a mile off the northern shore of the Bay of 

 Kenmare, one of an archipelago of little wooded islands, 

 which help to make the coast of Kerry — lovely every- 

 where — especially lovely there. My hunting-ground last 

 season (with the exception of a three days' visit to the 



