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T. RuhL — 1st to IOlIi of June. Garinish Island, Kerry. 

 Rather abundant. Took it occasionally last season in Gal- 

 way, on heather. 



L. Alsus. — Garinish Island, Kerry ; rare. St. Clerans, 

 Gahvay ; not uncommon. Very abundant in the Nubigena 

 district. This is the only " blue," besides Alexis, I have 

 ever taken; nor have I ever met with any "skippers" in 

 Ireland. 



The three common Pierida?, Cardamines, Urticse, Atalanta, 

 Cardui, Egeria, Megsera, Janira, Phljeas, and Alexis, are so 

 universally common in Ireland that 1 do not think them 

 worth mentioning. 



NOCTURNI. 



S. Populi. — Common, Garinish Island, Kerry ; St. Cle- 

 rans, &c., Galway. 



C. Porcellus. — Two were found last year, July 6th, on a 

 garden-wall, near Ballinasloe, Galway, and brought to me. 



C. Elpenor. — Very abundant; end of' June, 1870. Gari- 

 nish Island, Kerry. Also last season, St. Clerans, Galway, 

 took a large number hovering over the common monkshood 

 (Aconitum Napellus). 



M. Bomhyliformis. — Took nine or ten flying at buckbean 

 (Menyanthes trifoliata), in bogs, near Athenry, beginning of 

 June. 



S. Bemheciformh . — Very abundant indeed in 1870, on 

 Garinish Island, Kerry; also, last season, at Clonbrock, 

 Galway ; and everywhere I have collected in the south and 

 west. 



H. Velleda. — Very common, 1870, on Garinish Island, 

 Kerry ; also, last season, in Gahvay, but not so abundantly. 



P. Staiices. — Very common in the Nubigena district; end 

 of June. Nothing could exceed tlie beauty of the two 

 insects when flying together. 



Z. Nubigena. —CVare coast; end of June. I could not 

 have believed the incredible multitudes this species occurs 

 in, had 1 not seen it. At Black Head, on the horizontal 

 limestone slabs, at the very edge of the cliff", where nothing 

 grows but a few stunted tussocks of grass, and — strange 

 contrast! — the rare Adiantum Capillus- Veneris, with Saxi- 

 fraga hypnoides and Saxifraga tridactylites, and the lovely 



