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CATALOGUE OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF IRELAND: 

 SUPPLEMENTARY LIST. 



By W. F. DE VisMEs Kane, M.A., M.R.I.A., F.E.S. 



(Concluded from p. 16.) 



BuPALUs PiNiARiA, L. — Near Kildare {Freke). 



Sterrha sacraria, L. — One taken at Timoleague, Co. Cork, 

 27th August, 1898, by Mr. R. Donovan. 



Abraxas sylvata, Scop. — Kenmare {R. E. D.). 



Hybernia rupicapraria, Hh. — Sligo (McC). 



H. AURANTiARiA, EsjJ. — EnniskiUen (P.). 



Cheimatobia boreata, Hb. — Achill Island, Connemara 

 {R. E. D.). 



Oporabia dilutata, Bkh., and 0. autumnata, Bkh. — The 

 notice of O. autumnata and the two allied species by Mr. Prout 

 in the March number of the * Entomologist ' for this year has 

 again called my attention to the question of the distinction of 

 these three alleged species. I have already noted the occurrence 

 of a form from the Belfast hills, recognised by Mr. Barrett as 

 probably 0. autumnata, Gn. From a careful survey of a long 

 series of Oporabias in my own collection, I cannot detect any 

 which conform to Mr. Prout's diagnosis of the latter species. 

 For the most part, however, they are woodland examples ; and, 

 though very varied, belong to the varietal forms of 0. dilutata. 

 Ab. christyi is one of the most numerous from Hazlewood, Sligo, 

 and Mucross, Killarney, cf. Ent. xxxiii. pi. ii. figs. 7, 8, 9, 10 ; while 

 fig. 14 is also represented from three or four localities. There 

 are, moreover, some very beautiful forms with very white ground 

 barred with four sharply defined fuscous bands. I trust that 

 Irish lepidopterists, with Mr. Prout's paper to assist them in 

 diagnosis, may for the future pay more attention to this inter- 

 esting group. 



Larentia flavicinctata, Hh. — At Murlough Bay, Ballycastle, 

 Co. Antrim, the long grassy slopes which stretch up from the 

 sea to the foot of the chalk cliffs are full of Saxifraga hypnoides, 

 the food-plant of this species. It was here resting on the' rock 

 face that in 1897 that I met with numerous worn and a few fresh 

 examples of this moth, a new addition to the Irish fauna. Pro- 

 bably it will be found all round the Antrim coast-line, and 

 elsewhere, as in Sligo and the Burren of Clare, where this 

 saxifrage is plentiful. 



L. salicata, Hh. — Dromoland, Co. Clare {Hon. E. O'B.). 



Emmelesia t^niata, St. — Timoleague, Co. Cork {R.D.). 



EupiTHECiA PULCHELLATA, St. — Timoleague, Co. Cork {R. D.). 



