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bluish green form pracejys, Hb. Localities : -Howth, Malahide, 

 and Kingstown, scarce, Co. Dublin ; Greystones, Co. Wicklow, 

 scarce ; Wexford ; Waterville, Co. Kerry ; Lissadell, and near 

 Sligo, not rare (Buss) ; Pbrtrusb, Portballintrae, and Castlerock 

 (J.) , Co. Antrim ; Magilligan, frequent (C.) . 



Agrotis simulans, Hufn. — A few specimens have been taken 

 near Sligo by Mr. Euss lEnt. Record, vol. ii. 212). They are 

 lighter in tint than Scotch examples. This insect occurring in 

 the Isle of Man, whose lepidopterous fauna is distinctly Irish, we 

 may expect to find it occurring elsewhere on the Irish coast. 



Agrotis lucernea. L. — The cinereous type and the grey var. 

 cataleuca, Bdv., seem not to occur in Ireland. This species is 

 here represented by the var. renigera, St., a dark leaden grey 

 insect with darker bands and paler strigfe, similar to the South 

 Wales form (C. G. B.); but at Howth I have met with occasional 

 examples of lighter grey, intermediate between the usual form 

 and those of the South of England. It rarely seems to occur in 

 any numbers, though it is very generally distributed on the 

 Irish coast, usually to be taken on dangerous cliffs. An obscure 

 blackish grey form is to be found on the extreme western head- 

 lands of Kerry, which, as it appears a local variety, I propose to 

 call var. kerrensis ; I have met with it on Dursey Island, and on 

 rock islets off the Kerry coast ; it is of a bluish black colour, 

 generally almost or entirely unicolorous; but sometimes the waved 

 transverse strigse are slightly marked in paler tone. Localities 

 for type : — Howth, not uncommon, and Rockabill I., off the 

 Dublin coast ; Dunmore, and Saltee I., Co. Waterford ; Eoche's 

 Point, Old Head of Kinsale, and Galley Head, Co. Cork ; on the 

 Kerry coast at many localities ; near Galway {A.) ; at Magilligan 

 in one night Mr. Curzon took thirty-six; at Benevenagh Mt., 

 Co. Derry {W.) ; Castlerock, Co. Antrim {Bw.); Dundrum, Co. 

 Down, scarce {W.). 



NocTUA GLAREOSA, Esp. — Very widely spread and sometimes 

 locally (as at Howth) abundant. The whitish grey type, with 

 reddish subtermiual band, is the ordinary form. The var. rosea, 

 Tutt, is not uncommon at Magilligan and Howth. I took at Kil- 

 derry, near Derry, a specimen of dull purplish grey with a darker 

 subterminal band. Localities: — On the Dublin and Wicklow 

 coasts ; Cappagh and Dunmore, Co. Waterford ; many localities in 

 Co. Galway and Sligo ; Cromlyn {Mrs. B.) ; Favour Eoyal, Co. 

 Tyrone, scarce ; Drumreaske, Monaghan ; near Derry, fairly 

 abundant (C) ; Castlerock, numerous {Bw.) ; Ballycastle {Curz.), 

 Co. Antrim; Black Mt., Belfast, abundant {W.). 



NocTUA AUGUR, Fb. — To be met with throughout Ireland, and 

 often not uncommon. The Irish insect is of a dark warm 

 fuscous, and very strongly marked with the usual characters in 

 black. It varies slightly in the ruddy tinge, but I have never 



