272 THE ENTOMOLOC^IST. 



A CATALOGUE OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF IRELAND. 



By W. F. de VisMES Kane, M.A., M.E.I.A., F.E.S. 



(Continued from p. 254.) 



TiENiocAMPA PULVERULENTA, EsjJ. — A Considerable interest 

 attaches to this species from a distributional point of view, and 

 it would be well that its life-history and peculiarities should be 

 studied, with the view of elucidating the anomaly it presents ; 

 the experience of British and Irish collectors being vastly 

 different. Though numerous almost everywhere across the 

 water (teste Newman and Stainton), it is here local and usually 

 scarce. For many years I collected Tgeniocampidse in Ireland 

 without meeting any but single specimens of 'pidverulenta. At 

 Killarney I found five at a particular sallow, but during the 

 ensuing fortnight, over a wide district about the Upper Lake, I 

 made no further capture of it, though other species were 

 numerous. It is plentiful in Co. Wicklow, from Arklow to 

 Wooden Bridge, the type of dark warm grey, and ab. nana, Haw. 

 (pale grey) and ab. pusilliis being represented. At Clonbrock, 

 Co. Galway, it is also very abundant, though apparently absent 

 at Mount Bellew and Ardrahan in the same county. The Clon- 

 brock specimens offer a certain amount of variation, some being 

 profusely powdered with red scales, while others are charac- 

 terised by well-develoj)ed series of spots and strongly-marked 

 stigmata. Other localities are Co. Wicklow, Powerscourt, one ; 

 Ashford, a few; but about Shillelagh Mr. Bristow never met with 

 it; Phoenix Park, a few; Sligo, two {Tiitt) ; near Kenmare, a 

 few, Co. Kerry ; none recorded from the Belfast district by 

 Messrs. Bristow and Watts ; nor have I taken it in Co. Tyrone 

 or Monaghan. 



Orthosia suspecta, Hb.— The late Mr. F. Bond showed me 

 some very lovely forms of this species, taken at Killarney by 

 Bouchard. Kecorded on somewhat doubtful evidence by the late 

 Mr. Sinclair from the Co. Londonderry. Co. Wicklow (£.). 



[Orthosia fissipimcta, Haw., Yjys'don, Bork. — Eecorded by 

 Birchall, probably on insufficient authority, from Co. Wicklow.] 



Orthosia lota, Clerck. — Widely distributed, but somewhat 

 local. The red form is the more prevalent one, but near Sligo 

 (Eass and McC.) dark grey specimens are also not uncommon, 

 some examples assuming a very dark leaden hue. 



Var. sufusa, Tutt. Co. Dublin, and Ashford, Co. Wicklow, 

 not rare ; Cappagh, Co. Waterford, rare ; Killarney, Tarbert, 

 scarce. 



Var. riifa. — Clonbrock and elsewhere in Galway, fairly abun- 

 dant J L. Gill and Markree Castle, Co. Sligo, not common ; 



