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Li/cana cBgon. Very abundant on heath-land. — L. alexis. Common. 

 — L. an/iolus. Occurs in the spring, but not very commonly. 

 Xe)iicobins lucina. Locally abundant. 

 Si/richtJiKs malvce [alveolus). Common. 

 Nisoniades twjes. Common. 

 Hesperia thaumas [linea) and H. sylvanus. Common. 



Woking, Juue, 1895. 



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. 181.) 



Agrotis saucia, llh. — Very local and usually scarce. I 

 have noticed the following forms : — With unicolorous vinous 

 coloration, ah. rufa, Tutt, Glandore and Castle Bellingham. 

 Blackish grey with pale costa, ab. ochrea costa, Tutt, Howth, 

 Derry, and Glandore. The same with vinous costa, ab. saucia, 

 Hb., Howth. Pale brownish, Kingstown and Castle Bellingham. 

 A dark form with obscure markings, Derry, ab. majiiscida, 

 Haw.? Localities : — "Dublin in 1855" (B.) ; near Kingstown, 

 one ; Howth, not scarce (G. V. H.) ; three at Tinahely, Co. 

 Wicklow (Btv.) ; Killynon, several (Miss R.), and Cromlyn, 

 formerly abundant (Mrs. B.), Co. Westmeath ; Belfast, not rare 

 {Bw.) ; Magilligan, one ; Curzon, and near Derry and the coast 

 of Antrim, abundant (0.) ; Kylemore, Connemara [Hon. Miss 

 Lawless) ; Clonbrock, a few (B.E.D.), and Galway ; near Cross- 

 molina Co. Mayo, abundant (S. B. F.) ; Glandore, Co. Cork, not 

 scarce (D.) ; Castle Bellingham, Co. Louth, in some numbers 

 {Thonihill). 



Agrotis segetum, Sclujf. — Everywhere common. The vars. 

 suhatratus, Haw., and iiigricornutiis, Haw., are not uncommon. 

 Var. caliginosa, Esp., and yqm. fuscosa, Esp., also occur. 



Agrotis lunigera, *S'^. — Local, and, I believe, widely dis- 

 tributed in Ireland, and often abundant. Until the wilder dis- 

 tricts of the coast are more accessible for research by railways, 

 hotels, or available lodgings, little can be known of the distri- 

 bution of such littoral species as this. Although usually met 

 with on rocky cliffs and wind-swept elevations, this insect also 

 may be found on low reaches of shore. The larvie may some- 

 times be found sheltered under solitary tufts of grass growing in 

 the chinks of bare walls of rock. I am not familiar with 

 English specimens such as those described by Mr. Tutt in 

 ' British Noctuse.' He speaks of the two sexes approximating 

 often in colour and marking, even (in var. suffusa) " the hind 

 wings of the males as dark on outer margin as in females." I 



