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usual at sugar on the ground I had left. As regards L. exigua, 

 I should like to add that our specimens were all taken between 

 8.30 and 9 p.m., certainly not later. Mr. Woodforde's experience 

 differs in this respect, for he says the insects appear mostly 

 between ten o'clock and midnight. I have watched often until a 

 late hour, but never took one later than nine o'clock, nor did I 

 find any on very windy nights, although I do not maintain that 

 the}^ would not come on such nights. When once settled they 

 are not at all shy, like many of their companions at sugar, but 

 allow themselves to be easily boxed. The females lay their eggs 

 readily, and I have at the present moment larvae from four 

 different parents. The ova, which were in batches completely 

 enveloped in down, hatched within a fortnight, and the young 

 larva took to knot-grass, leaving the reputed food-plant, plantain, 

 untouched. They are now eating dock, but I question whether 

 they will survive the winter, as they appear extremely delicate. 

 The larva has been found in the wild state early in the summer 

 on Persicuria near the coast. This would indicate that, as with 

 Caradrina ambigua, there is an earlier brood of this insect. 



65, St. Quintin's Avenue, North Kensington, W. : 

 November, 1900. 



CATALOGUE OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF IRELAND: 

 SUPPLEMENTARY LIST. 

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



RHOPALOCEEA. 



PiERis RAP.E, L., var. METRA, Stepli. — ^^A male taken at Glogher 

 Head, Co. Louth, by Mr. Thornhill, in June. 



P. NAPi, L., ab. FLAVA, Kane. — A very deeply coloured 

 example of this was taken at Magilligan, Co. Derry, by the late 

 Mr. Curzon. 



P. DAPLiDicE, L.— One captured, Aug. 18th, 1893, by Mr. 

 Hind, at Courtown, Co. Wexford. A correspondent at Ferns also 

 reports its occurrence there, but I have not seen the specimens. 



Leucophasia sinapis, L. — Curraghmore, Co. Waterford (Rev. 

 W. F. Flemyng) ; five miles west of Kildare {Mr. Freke) ; Mount 

 Congreve, Tramore, and near the town of Waterford, and at 

 Milepost, Co. Kilkenny {Buonaparte Wyse) ; Merlin Park, Gal- 

 way, abundant. 



CoLiAS EDUSA, Fb, — Occasional immigrations of this butterfly 

 have been recorded during the last few years, chiefly in the 

 South of Ireland, and numerously in 1899 ; one or two also in 

 the northern half of the island. 



