THE MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA OF COUNTY TYRONE. LS 
THE MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA OF COUNTY TYRONE. 
By Tuomas GREER. 
(Continued from p. 35.) 
Euplexia lucipara, L.—Abundant generally at sugar. 
Phlogophora meticulosa, L.—Common throughout the county. 
Mormo maura, L.—Kane states that this species is abundant 
at Corkhill; not uncommon locally among old willows near 
Lissan, Tullylagan and at Stewartstown. 
Nenia typica, L.—Abundant at grasses and sugar. 
Helotropha leucostigma, Hb.—Locally abundant in bogs and 
marshes; var. jibrosa, Hb., being fine and distinctly marked, 
varying from pale red to a dark red-brown. 
Hydrecia (Gortyna) crinanensis, Burrows.—A recently dis- 
covered species which seems only to occur in the North of 
England and Scotland, and in Ireland altogether replacing the 
familiar nictitans (so far as is at present known). Abundant and 
widely spread on marshy ground and stream sides, the imago 
resting on scabious and ragwort in the daytime, but more plenti- 
fully after dark. A very variable insect, the darker forms being 
more abundant near Lough Neagh. Mr. Kane (referring to the 
species then known as nictitans) remarks: ‘‘On the sandhills 
and fens which border the Wicklow coast I have found typical 
nictitans to be the almost exclusive form, and out of a series} 
sent to Mr. Tutt he only noted one var. paludis. On the other 
hand, I last year took a long series of nothing but var. paludis} 
except two var. lucens at Mote Park, Co. Roscommon. At Favour 
Royal I had a similar experience ’’ (‘Catalogue of the Lepidoptera 
of Ireland ’). 
Hydreecia (G.) lucens, Pierce.--Often abundant on moorlands 
and bogs, Altadiawan (K.), on ragweed near Cookstown (H.) ; at 
Lough Fea it frequents the bogs on the higher ground, but does 
not descend to the damp meadows alongside the lough, where the 
preceding species is found in abundance. 
Hydrecia (G.) micacea, Esp.—Abundant on waste ground 
almost everywhere; var. brunnea, Tutt, not uncommon. 
*Ochria ochracea, Hb.—Prof. J. W. H. Harrison discovered 
the pupe of this species in thistle stems near Cookstown. 
Nonagria typhe, Hb.—Abundant generally in the county 
among T'ypha. 
Tapinostola fulva, Hb.—Common in marshes and damp 
meadows, the red (type) form not rare locally. 
+ At the sale of Mr. Tutt’s ‘Collection this series, or a portion of it, was 
purchased by Dr. A. E. Cockayne, who writes (‘ Entom. Record,’ vol. xxiv, p. 73) 
that the Rev. C. R. N. Burrows had examined the species, which consisted of 
eighteen crinanensis and thirteen lucens. 
t These specimens have since been identified as forms of lucens, and it is very 
doubtful as to the occurrence of paludis in Ireland. 
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