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etrre, Phibalapteryx lapidata. The Mourne mounlains, 

 owing to tlieir great extent, are very difficult for any but a 

 resident collector to deal with. In a district of this kind one 

 has to find out the particular spots frecjuented by the insects, 

 and without this knowledge a collector might spend a whole 

 day with very little result. Unfortunately, there is no resident 

 collector, so that not very much has been done. The larva 

 of Closiera cm tula has been found in the valley above 

 J>loody Bridge ; Fhycis fusca, in the Happy Valley ; and 

 Pamplusia fuercut iann, on the top of Slieve Bingian, at an 

 elevation of 2,400 feet. An old record gives Rostrevor as 

 a locality for Lycana ces;^o/i, but it has not been met with 

 recently. Z. arj^io/us occurs in Donard Demesne; and in 

 the same locality, Hyelophila prasiiiana^ Hepialus hedus, 

 Hadena adustir, J'enusia carnbrica, Afe/a/ithia alhicillata, 

 and Olindiii ulmana. These are some of the chief localities 

 in Antrim and Down for Lepidoptera ; others will be found 

 noted in the following lists. 



Of casual visitors we may note Fanessa antiopa^ captured 

 many years ago by Canon Bristow near Belfast ; Sphinx 

 convolvuli, recorded from Glenarm ; and Deilephila livornica, 

 taken in Ormeau Park. It is somewhat remarkable that 

 the only Zv^s,iefia recorded is the common filipenduUv. 

 Z. loniierce occurs quite commonly in Co. Armagh, on the 

 very borders of Down, and there seems to be no reason 

 why it should not occur in Antrim and Down. In the list 

 which follows I have only noted some of the more interesting 

 species. I have availed myself of the list of the J.epidoptera 

 taken in the Belfast district by C. W. Watts, Mr. Kane's 

 List of Irish Lepidoptera, and Mr. Barrett's work on the 

 Lepidoptera of the British Islands. 



Gonepteryx rhamni, L. — "On the 4 of July, 1829, 

 I watched one for some time on the quay of Belfast ; but as 

 a crowded wharf is a place but ill adapted for racing after 

 butterflies, I had to allow the unusual visitant to escape, but 

 not until 1 had been several times so near as to preclude 

 the possibility of any mistake as to the insect." — Insects 

 mentioned in Shakespea'C, by the late R. Patterson, F.R..S. 

 Argynnis aglaia, L. — Portrush, Portballintrae, Dun- 

 drum, Bryansford. 



