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Mijhthris (Butl.) rif/athina, Cram.; Zanzibar; Durban. One species 

 (/ chloris) from Bathm-st, unidentified. 



Pieris (Schrank.) mesentina, Cram. ; Bathurst ; Mombasa. P. 

 severina, Cram., and P. bogiiensis, Feld. ; Mombasa. P. creona, Cram. ; 

 Bathurst. P. liellica, Linn. ; Saldanha Bay ; Port Elizabeth. P. 

 glauconome, lOug ; Bathurst. 



Hcrpania (Butl.) eriphia, Godt,, var. Jacteipennis, But!. ; Bathurst. 



Teracolus (Swains.) ione, Godt., T. annce, Walleng., T. auxo, Lucas, 

 and auxo var. (?) ; Mombasa. T. cvippc, Linn. ; Sierra Leone. T. 

 omphale, Godt., and T. vesta, Reiche ; Mombasa. One species from 

 Mombasa, and one from Zanzibar, unidentified. 



L'ulias (Fab.) clectra, Liun. ; Cape Peninsula. 



Eronia (Boisd.) cleodora,'H.\\hn.; Mombasa. 



CaUidryas (Boisd.) f] or ell a, Fab. ; Mombasa. 



Papilio (Linn.) demoleus, Linn. ; Simon's Town. 



Cyclopides (Westw.) malgacha, Boisd. ; Simon's Town. C. mineni, 

 Trim. ; Mombasa. 



Pyrrjus (Westw.) vindex, Cram. ; Simon's Town. P. dmnus, Hopff. ; 

 Zanzibar. One species from Mombasa, unidentified. 



PampMla (Fab.) Iwttentota, Latr. ; Simon's Town. P. lui/ena, 

 Hopff., and P. fatuellus, Hopff. ; Mombasa. One species from Simon's 

 Town, and one from Zanzibar, unidentified. 



Hesperia (¥ah.) forestan, Cram., and H. anchises, Gerst. ; Mombasa. 



If any one should wish for any information as regards locality 

 or date of capture of any species named, I shall be very pleased 

 to give such in as great detail as I may be able. 



H.M.S. 'Raleigh,' Simon's Town, Oct. 29th, 1894. 



A CATALOGUE OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF IRELAND. 



By W. F. DE ViSMES Kane, M.A., M.R.I.A., F.E.S. 



(Continued from p. 82.) 



Phothedes captiuncula, Tr., var. tiiicta. — Neither the type 

 nor its darker variety expolita seems to occur in Ireland. Mr. 

 Birchall found a richly-coloured form in Co. Galway, which 

 he did not describe, but which is so distinct that it is worthy of 

 a varietal name. It approaches Miana literosa in colour, though 

 in size and design easily distinguishable. Fore wings : basal 

 third of a warm grey, somewhat mottled, followed by a deep 

 rose-coloured band reaching from costa to inner margin, bordered 

 interiorly by a very sinuous festooned line of purple-brown, edged 

 externally with grey, and exteriorly by one of similar colours, 

 deeply elbowed toward the outer margin of the wing ; the outer 

 third of the wing is of a shining pink, with a darker ruddy patch 

 along the costa, but not reaching to the apex, and a clear whitish 

 suffusion along the lower and outer portion of the red central 



