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T^NiocAMPA iNCEKTA, Hiifn. — Universally distributed, but 

 generally much less common than either the preceding or stabilis. 

 The dark forms, such as yox. fuscatus, Haw., are usually the most 

 plentiful ; and next in abundance those with warm brown ground 

 colour. Specimens of the true var. instahilis, Hb., of the colour 

 of P. ruhricosa, with a dark band, are taken at Drumreaske, 

 Monaghan ; but it is an uncommon form. Those with various 

 tones of grey with or without a median band are rather scarce. 

 At Clonbrock Mr. Dillon takes a very handsome mottled bluish 

 grey variety in some numbers, which appears referable to var. 

 ccerulescens, Tutt. It appears restricted to a small area in its 

 occurrence at Clonbrock. The var. instahilis, Fb. (as quoted in 

 Tutt's 'British Noctuae'), with greyish wings and waved ferru- 

 ginous median band, I have very rarely seen. Westmeath, and 

 Sligo (McC). 



T^NiocAMPA opiMA, Hb. — A Very local species, first noted in 

 Birchall's * Supplement,' 1873, taken by Mr. Talbot at Tarbert, 

 on the south shore of the Shannon estuary. Many years after 

 a specimen fell to my net at Killynon, Westmeath. Lately it 

 has been taken pretty numerously at Clonbrock, Co. Galway ; 

 and occurs at Castle Bellingham, Co. Louth (Thornhill), and near 

 Belfast (scarce, W.). Besides the pale grey type with median 

 band varying in depth of colour and breadth, a considerable 

 proportion of brown forms, with antemarginal line and outlines 

 of stigmata paler (var. hrunnea, Tutt), are found at Clonbrock and 

 Castle Bellingham, some being as dark as any North of England 

 specimens I have seen. Intermediate forms of greyish brown are 

 not uncommon — var. intermedia, Tutt. 



TzENiocAMPA popuLETi, Fh. — " Wicklow and Killarney" {B.). 

 A Tceniocampa possibly referable to this species, but since lost, 

 was taken near Derry by Mr. Campbell. Two at Clonbrock, Co. 

 Galway (R. E. D.). 



T^NiocAMPA STABILIS, VieiD. — Usually the commonest of this 

 genus, though in some districts gothica supersedes it. Every 

 known variety appears to exist here, with ground colour ranging 

 from pale whitish grey to various tones of brown and red. Often 

 a median shading is present, and strongly marked but suffused, 

 and many examples have the stigmata extremely large and some- 

 times adherent. (Var. jimcta, Haw.) I do not know of any form 

 peculiar to Ireland. 



T^NiocAMPA GRACILIS, Fb. — This species is represented in 

 almost every locality I have any experience of, but usually in 

 sparing numbers. On the other hand it sometimes, as at Clon- 

 brock, is extremely numerous, and turns up in dozens. Like 

 opima it is rather later in emergence than most of its congeners, 

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