78 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



aberration have eight extra spots on the fore wings, two above 

 and two on the underside on each wing. 



C oenonympha tijihon was not scarce in its localities near 

 Lough Fea at 800 ft. ; C. pamphilus was present on the same 

 ground, frequenting the dryer edges of the bogs. C. tiphon was 

 also observed in small numbers in the Lough Neagh district, 

 where it is rapidly being exterminated through drainage and 

 turf-cutting ; another local insect likely to share the same fate is 

 CallopJiri/s ruhi which used to abound on the birch trees growing 

 among the heather ; this season I only got two specimens. 



Chri/sophanus phheas fresh on the wing May 20th, the spring 

 emergence being in no way remarkable ; on August '20th a field 

 of flax was alive with the summer brood ; here I captured some 

 nice aberrations, including a male, left fore wing partly ab. 

 scJntiidtii, right ab. intermedia, Tutt, the marginal band on left 

 hind wing ab. schmidtii, that on the right intermedia ; one male 

 ab. intermedia ; two examples with pear-shaped spots on anterior 

 wings ; here also the ab. carideopuncta, Gerh., was almost as- 

 frequent as the type, some of the females especially being very fine. 



Our only local blue, Lyccena icariis, was not abundant, its 

 haunts having been closely grazed for the last few years, and in 

 some of its localities I am afraid it has been exterminated. 

 Amongst a small series captured for a corresi3ondent I was lucky 

 to find a specimen with red marginal sjDots on upper side of the 

 lower wings ; ab. rvfopunctatus, Neub., another example in bad 

 condition, was netted near Portglenone, Co. Antrim. Here there 

 is only a single emergence extending from the middle of June 

 till September. On the whole the past season was a good one, 

 and although there were a great number of dull, cloudy and 

 windy days, the rainfall was much below the average, and 

 perhaps on this account certain species were more abundant 

 than usual. 



Curglasson, 



Stewartstown, Co. Tyrone. 



EANDOM EECOLLECTIONS OF THE SEASON' OF 

 1919 AT EASTBOUENE. 



By Robert Adkin, F.E.S. 



Seldom have the wet and dry seasons of a year been so 

 sharply defined as they were in this immediate neighbourhood 

 in 1919. The rainfall of the first four months of the year was 

 considerably in excess of the average ; on April 28th heavy snow 

 fell, on May 9th a thunder-storm passed along the coast but 

 gave us little more rain than a passing shower, and from that 

 time the weather became distinctly dry and continued so until 

 the end of October, the rainfall for the six weeks from the middle 



