A CATALOGUE OF THE tilfiPIDOPTERA OF IRELAND. 



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studying their origin, geographical distribution, and morphology, 

 these are themes with which I propose to deal in some future 

 paper on the same subject. 



Table illustrating the Vertical Zones in the Alps, loith their characteristic 

 Vegetation and average Elevation above the sea-level. 



Vertical 

 zone. 



Characteristic Vegetable 



productions 



(upper limits). 



Olive zone . . 



Viae zone . . 



Lower Hill 



zone (or 

 walnut zone) 



Upper Hill 



zone (or 

 beech zone) 



Lower Alpine 



zone (or 



pine zone) 



Upper Alpine 

 zone (or rho- 

 dodendron 

 zone) 



Snow zone . . 



( Olive, orange, lemon, 



I rice 



j Vine, maize, tobacco, ) 

 ( apricot, peach, quince} 

 I Walnut, sweet chestnut, 

 \ white mulberry, dam- 



[ son 



.Beech (upright), cherry, 

 chicory, wheat, pear,' 

 hemp, oak, buck- 

 wheat, yew, apple, 

 lime, juniper, elm, 

 ash, black poplar, 



bean, millet 



^Sycamore, barley, rye,\ 

 oats, larch, cedar, 

 potato, cabbage, sil- 

 ver fir, aspen, sum- 

 mer rye, turnip, flax, 

 mountain ash, birch, 

 silver-leaved alder, 

 V hawthorn, spruce fir' 

 ^■Vlpine alder, rhododen-\ 

 dron, whortleberry, 

 bilberry, alpine juni- ' 

 per, dwarf pine, gen- 

 tians, saxifrages, pri- 

 mulas, &c. 



(Line of congelation) , 



5 "^ 

 fl o 2 +^ 



(U <U rj O 



Up to 

 800 ft. 

 Up to 

 2600 ft. 



Up to 

 3U00 ft. 



Up to 

 4750 ft. 



Up to 

 7600 ft. 



Up to 

 8000 ft. 



9000 ft. 



Alps of 

 Valais.. 



Up to 



2650 ft. 



Up to 

 35uO ft. 



Up to 

 4500 ft. 



Up to 

 6650 ft. 



Up to 

 7500 ft. 



8500 ft. 



The 

 Grisons. 



S3 '^^ 



u 01 O 



m p3 05 • 



to ..Ot-i 



Up to 



25uO ft. 



Up to 

 3450 ft. 



Up to 

 4500 ft. 



Up to 

 7050 ft. 



Up to 

 7500 ft. 



8500 ft. 



Up to 

 1800 ft. 



Up to 

 2900 ft. 



Up to 

 40U0 ft. 



Up to 

 6250 ft. 



Up to 

 7500 ft. 



8500 ft. 



The 

 Jura. 



Up to 

 1600 ft. 



Up to 



29U0 ft. 



Up to 



42U0 ft. 



Up to 

 4750 ft. 



Up to 



7000 ft. 



Birmingham, October 20th, 1895. 



A CATALOGUE OF THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF lEELAND. 

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



(Continued from p. 274.) 



CiRRHCEDiA XERAMPELINA, Hh. — Eare, but apparently distri'^ 

 huted widely ; though I have no southern locahties. Belfast, 

 one; Castlewellan Park, two, Co. Down (IF.); Duhdalk, Castle 

 Bellingham {Thornhiil), and Drumcar {Rev. Harpur Crewe), Co. 

 Louth ; Enniskillen, a few {S. and Capt. Browne) ; Killynon 



