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the same moth had been named fasciuncula by himself. 

 Thus, a curious fate prevented two new species from being 

 added to the British Lepidoptera, on the strength of the 

 captures made at Castle Taylor in 1851. 



Eleven species were, however, added to the Irish list, 

 as appears from Mr. Birchall's Paper, " On Additions to 

 the Irish Lepidoptera," read in Dublin,* in 1857. The 

 author there expresses his obligations " to Mr. Alexander 

 G. More, of Bembridge, for a very complete record of his 

 captures during a residence of several months at Ardrahan, 

 which has enabled me to add no less than 1 1 species to 

 our list." The eleven species referred to had all been taken 

 at Castle Taylor in 1851. They were 



1. Calligenia miniata (" Rosy Footman " or " Red Arches "). 



2. Nonagria despecta (" Small Rufous"). 



3. Agrotis corticea (" Heart and Club "). 



4. Noctua umbrosa (" Six-striped Rustic"). 



5. Amphipyra pyramidea (" Copper Underwing "). 



6. Epunda lutulenta (" Deep-brown Dart "). 



7. Hadena dentina (" Grey Shears "). 



8. Acidalia bisetata (" Small Fan-footed Wave "). 



9. Bapta temeraria ("Clouded Silver"). 



10. Aspilates gilvaria (" Straw Belle "). 



11. Polypogon tarsicrinalis. 



Perhaps the most interesting of the above was that 

 which stands 6th in the list. Its identification had cer- 

 tainly afforded the greatest difficulty. It came in abun- 

 dance to the sugar, especially during the first week of 

 September, and being unable to identify it himself, he 

 submitted it to all his entomological friends at Cambridge, 

 only to find that none of them had met with the species. 

 In the end it was sent to and named by Mr. Doubleday. 

 Like the "Least Minor," it has undergone many meta- 

 morphoses of name. Doubleday called it Charseas lutu- 

 lenta; in Stainton's Manual it is Hadena lutulenta; in 

 Newman's British Moths it is Epunda lutulenta ; and in 

 Mr. W. F. Kirby's " European Butterflies and Moths," 

 Aporophylla lutulenta. 



The pretty " Rosy Footman " is still, so far as is known, 



* Nat. Hist. Review, vol. V., pp. 53, 54. 



