A CATALOGUE OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF IRELAND. 1D7 



scarce {Thornhill); Castlerock, Co. Antrim {Bw.); rare at Sligo 

 {Iluss) ; near Derry, one (C) ; Clonbrock, Co. Galway, two 

 {R.E.JD.) ; near Kenmare, Co. Kerry, abundant. 



[Agrotis rip.e, lib. — Mr. Birchall gives Malahide sandhills 

 (Co. Dublin) as a locality, but as it has not been met with there 

 or elsewhere, it may be possible that a form of ciirsoria with 

 rather pale hind wings may have been mistaken for this species.] 



Agrotis cursoria, Hufn. — Locally abundant and apparently 

 widespread on the Irish coast. It varies greatly in tints of 

 ochreous to brown, but I have seen no approach to the slaty 

 grey of var. carulea, Tutt, nor in design to those with white 

 reniform and orbicular stigmata from Shetland and Yarmouth. 

 The darkest specimens I have met with are a few with ground 

 colour of a cold bistre brown, well marked with transverse striae, 

 &c. Of named forms the following occur : — With obsolete mark- 

 ings, var. armcna, Evers., Sligo {Tutt) and Arklow; and single 

 specimens of unicolorous reddish brown, (?) var. obscura, Stgr., 

 Ballinskelligs Bay and Drumanweir, Co. Donegal {G. V. H.). 

 Var. mixta, Fab. is recorded by Mr. Tutt from Sligo. It is not 

 uncommon at Magilligan Point, L. Foyle; near Donegal; and 

 elsewhere. Var. pallida, Tutt, I have from Sligo and Arklow. 

 Vars. ochrea and brunnca, Tutt, are recorded by him from Sligo. 

 Localities : — Inver near Donegal, Carrablagh, and Drumanweir 

 {G. V. H.) ; Bundoran (W.), and Buncrana (C), Co. Donegal ; 

 Magilhgan Point, L. Foyle, abundant ; Castlerock, Co. Antrim 

 (Bw.) ; Dundrum, Co. Down, scarce (W.) ; Castle Bellingham, 

 Co. Louth {Thornhill); Arklow, Co. Wicklow ; Youghal ; Ballin- 

 skelligs Bay, Co. Kerry, abundant ; and Knocknarea and Lissa- 

 dell sandhills, Co. Sligo, abundant. 



Agrotis nigricans, L. — Generally distributed and often fairly 

 numerous. It varies by no means as much as in Great Britain. 

 I have seen none of the very pale grey and reddish varieties. 

 At Howth dark examples with warm brown ground are frequent, 

 as well as blackish forms. The palest brown Irish specimens I 

 have seen were taken at Castlerock, Co. Antrim, by Mr. Bristow. 

 At Clogher Head, Co. Louth, the species is abundant, and I took 

 there a nice series of very dark forms such as vars. fuliginea, 

 fumosa, and iirsina, Godt. I have an interesting aberration from 

 Howth of a greyish brown ground colour, with the reniform and 

 orbicular stigmata fused into a dark streak, that on the left wing 

 preserving the orbicular without alteration of shape on the outer 

 edge. Near Derry, scarce (C). I have but few localities noted 

 besides the above, but the species is very widespread in the south, 

 and in Galway in the west, but scarcer inland. 



Agrotis tritici, L. — This very common moth seems in Ire- 

 laud to be always of some tone of warm brown, except the darkest 



