THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 75 



Nubigena country) was restricted to one or two inland 

 localities in Galway, and it strikes me as rather curious that 

 so many identical species should occur both there and in 

 Kerry ; not merely on account of their distance apart, but 

 because of their total dissimilarity in every point of view : 

 one — precipitous, covered with a luxuriant natural vege- 

 tation, and washed on every side by the Atlantic ; the 

 other — a flat limestone plain, treeless, except in a few 

 favoured spots, and twenty miles from the nearest sea. In 

 both instances I captured all the insects enumerated between 

 the first week in June and the second or third in July. 



DiURNI. 



L. Sinapis. — Rather abundant last season, from 4th to 

 13th of June. St. Clerans and Dunsandle Woods, near 

 Athenry, Co. Galway. I noticed it on the 6th in enormous 

 numbers at Coole Park, near Gort. (In your 'British 

 Butterflies' St. Clerans has, by some accident, been mis- 

 printed Florensf) ■ 



G. Rhamni. — One pair (hybernated, of course), first week 

 in June. St. Clerans, Galway. 



A. PapJiia. — Very abundant, end of June, 1870, on Gari- 

 nish Island, Kerry ; also, last season, at St. Clerans, Galway. 

 This is, I think, the only really common Irish fritillary. 1 

 have foimd it in profusion everywhere I have collected. 



M. Artemis. — Occasionally. Boggy fields. St. Clerans 

 and its neighbourhood, Co. Galway. 



S. Tithonus. — Very abundant indeed, first week in July, 

 1870, on Garinish Island, Kerry. I never met with it on the 

 mainland. Mr. Birchal), in his invaluable ' Lepidoptera of 

 Ireland,' includes Semele (the grayling) with Egeria, Megaera 

 and Janira, as generally abundant in Ireland ; but, though I 

 have been now a good many years collecting, 1 have never 

 met with it. Of course that only proves that I have missed 

 its locality; but still I do not think it can be as abundant as 

 the other three above-mentioned, which are of universal 

 occurrence. 



S. Hyperauthus. — Very common. Garinish Island, Kerry, 

 and St. Clerans, Galway ; and everywhere 1 have collected 

 in Munster and Connaught. 



C. Davus. — I only met with two or three last season, as it 

 does not occur in cultivated districts. 



