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and the ab. caulotosticta, Williams, also was not rare.* On 

 May '22ud my wife found at rest on Cardamine vratensis an 

 extreme suffused example of the ab. radiata, Williams, and two 

 days later I found, also at rest, a large specimen streaked with 

 orange on both upper and under side of fore wings, the streaks 

 extending from the discoidal spot to the margin. 



In working for aberrations one soon gets to know their 

 favourite roosting-places — a sheltered corner in a meadow — a 

 certain clump of Cardamine growing in a deep ditch ; in such 

 spots, those receiving the rays of the evening sun being the best, 

 numbers of this species are often to be found at rest at sunset, 

 also during dull weather, the food-plants of the species in this 

 locality being C. pratensis and Sisijmhrium alliaria, and I once 

 found ova on C. amara, which is a locally common plant in the 

 district. During August Dnjas paphia was flying in numbers in 

 several mountain glens and I saw a single female on August 23rd 

 in a small wood on the Lough Neagh sliore, 



Meldcea aurinia was flying in swarms on a heather-clad hill- 

 side on May 21st ; it was also common in a damp meadow below 

 where I was on the look-out for Macrocilossa tityiis. The following 

 aberrations have occurred here : prcedara, scotica and artemis. 

 Curiously enough the first specimen I ever found in this district 

 was observed at rest on a flower of Menyanthes trifoliata, in the 

 middle of an extensive swamp. 



On August 23rd, a fine sunny day, I found Aglais urticce very 

 numerous at mint flowers on the shores of Lough Neagh ; a few 

 Vanessa io were also seen. Of five of the latter netted, three were 

 the ab. ci/anosticta, Eaynor. At the end of the month another 

 visit was paid to the lough, when very few A. urticce were about, 

 but Pi/rameis atalanta was observed in some numbers. 



Pararge egendes and P. megara were generally abundant ; a 

 nice straw-coloured female (2nd gen.) of the latter was captured 

 in August on an old coal-mine dump, as well as several males 

 with additional ocelli. 



Aphantopus Ityperanthus was very common on grassy banks 

 and in rough meadows. 



Owing to the dry season Epinephele jartina was not as 

 plentiful as usual. A fine form occurs locally. In the males the 

 usually slight fulvous area on the fore wings is considerably 

 extended, the females with the fulvous colour occupying the 

 central area of fore wings, and a bright band of the same colour 

 on outer margin of the lower wings, the apical spot often double. 



In a locality here the ab. addenda, Mousley, was fairly 

 abundant ; this as originally described is a female form, but 

 this season I found a number of the male sex, having spots in 

 the fulvous patch, underside. The finest examples of the female 



* These are similar to the "aggressive" looking specimen captuied by Mr. 

 H. P. Jones near Cambridge {'Entomologist,' vol. li, p. 249). 



