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creamy-white var. pallida, St., is, I think, the most widely dis- 

 tributed form; but var. sparsus, Haw., which is more or less 

 speckled with black scales, is occasional in some localities, — 

 Clonbrock ; Drumreaske, Monaghan ; and Favour Eoyal, Tyrone, 

 &c., — and is the local type at Enniskillen {teste Capt. Browne, 

 who has also taken an extreme form of it there). Var. pallida, 

 Gn. = rosea, Tutt, I met with at Clonbrock. The dark reddish 

 var. riifcscens, Ckll., is very rare ; I have seen a few taken by 

 Mr. Dillon, and one from Leenane in the same Co. (^4.), but the 

 colour is rarely so deep as those from the New Forest. 



T^NiocAMPA MiNiosA, Fb. — The few Irish specimens hitherto 

 taken belong to the var. ruhricosa, Esp., being of pale reddish 

 ground colour with a well-marked red median band. I have met 

 with it at Howth and the Wooden Bridge, Co. Wickiow, where 

 also Mr. Fitzgibbon took a specimen in 1892. One was recorded 

 from Ashford, in the same county {Talhot, 1877). A few bred 

 this year at Clonbrock, Co. Galway (Li. E. D.). 



T.ENiocAMPA MUNDA, Esp. — The distribution of this local moth 

 in the northern half of Ireland seems to be pretty Avide ; but 

 BirchalTs original record of "Killarney" is the only one yet 

 available from the south. The range of variation seems to be as 

 wide as in Great Britain, but I have seen none of very red ground 

 colour. The following tints occur : — Pale grey, similar to Xtjlina 

 sncia (var. pallida, Tutt) ; dingy speckled grey ('? var. grisea, 

 Tutt) ; pale ochre (type) ; warm buff {'? rafa, Tatt) ; dingy brown. 

 Of these forms, with their varied designs of marking, perhaps the 

 most striking is the last ; of which I have specimens with slightly 

 marked ante-marginal dashes, and a very broad suffused median 

 band, and other waved transverse linear markings in darker tone. 

 The most unicolorous example I have is of a warm buff ground, 

 with only the reniform stigma and two almost obsolete ante-mar- 

 ginal dashes (var. himaculatus. Haw.). The median band is usually 

 obsolete or nearly so in the paler forms. Localities : — I have 

 met with a few specimens at Arlilow and Wooden Bridge, Co. 

 Wickiow; Dr. Hart, one at Howth, It is not scarce at Castle 

 Bellingham, Co. Louth [Thornhill) ; at Drumreaske, Monaghan; 

 and on the verge of the Co. Tyrone at Favour Royal. Single 

 examples were taken at Tempo Manor {Langham) , near Ennis- 

 killen (near which town a series has also been caught by Capt. 

 Browne) ; at Hollybrook {Miss ff.) and Markree Castle, Co. 

 Sligo ; Farnham, Co. Cavan {Halhert) ; and a few at Clonbrock, 

 Co. Galway {R. E. D.). 



(To be continued.) 



