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Tinodes maculieornis at Athlone. — At page 136, vol. xxiv, Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 Mr. K. J. Morton records the occurrence of Tinodes maculieornis, Pict., from the 

 north of Ireland, at Glaslough. I have now to record it from the neighbourhood of 

 Athlone, where it seems to occur in considerable numbers, judging from the 

 specimens which I brought home, seeing that I did not recognise it at the time, and 

 hence did not take as many as I would otherwise have done. It seems to occur all 

 along Lough Ree, Twy River, and at Glasson. — James J. F. X. King, 207, 

 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow : March, 1889. 



Nyssia zonaria in Co. Antrim. — I beg to inform you that on the 29th of March 

 last I captured at Eallycastle, Co. Antrim, four male and one female specimens of 

 Nyssia zonaria in good condition. This is, I believe, the first recorded capture of 

 this moth in the imago 6tate in Ireland. And as the insect is found only in a few 

 isolated localities, the information may prove interesting to your readers. — John 

 Bbistow, St. James' Parsonage, Belfast : April 3rd, 1889. 



Food-plant of Mesperia Action in England. — In the Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. x, 

 p. 86, the late Mr. Wm. Buckler described the food-plant of the larva of H. Actceon 

 as Brachypodium sylvaticum, and as I find this statement is not corrected in 

 " Buckler's larvae," published by the Ray Society, it may be well to publish Mr. W. 

 Buckler's own correction of this error. The following is an extract from a letter 

 received by myself from Mr. Buckler, dated Emsworth, June 7th, 1880 : " I am 

 indeed greatly rejoiced to see the larvae of H. Actceon in all stages of growth that 

 you have so kindly sent me, and particularly at the blossom of the grass they feed 

 on, for now I can be sure it is that of Brachypodium pinnatum, and not sylvaticum." 

 I may add that Brachypodium sylvaticum, so far as I am aware, does not grow in the 

 localities frequented by H. Actceon, while pinnatum is abundant. — C. R. Digby, 

 Studland Rectory, Wareham : April 1st, 1889. 



Prices of British Lepidoptera. — The following notes regarding the late Mr. A. 

 F. Sheppard's Collection, sold by Auction at Stevens' Rooms, on the 25th and 26th 

 March, may be interesting to some of our readers. The Collection was estimated at 

 about 27,000 specimens, and for sale purposes formed about 430 Lots. The sum 

 realized for the whole (exclusive of the Cabinets) was nearly £400. More than 

 £100 was secured for the Butterflies alone. We make a brief analysis of some of 

 the principal features. Two examples of Vanessa Antiopa were sold for 28/- ; 

 thirty Lyccena dispar realized £55 (two pairs, $ ? , of this insect, in extra fine 

 condition, were sold at £6 per pair) ; a lot, in which Polyommatus haetica was 

 included, fetched £4 ; four lots, in which P. Acis was included, fetched nearly £7 ; 

 two lots, consisting of four Deilephila livornica and two D. celerio, were sold for 

 nearly £3 ; lots, consisting chiefly of varieties of Arctia Caja and villica, fetched 

 over £13 ; two examples of Deiopeia pulchella realized 30/- ; twenty-two specimens 

 of Lcelia ccenosa realized £10 ; a series of about forty Abraxas grossulariata, 

 including many vars., was sold for £5 10s., and twelve specimens of Lobophora 

 polygrammata for 4 guineas ; a lot, in which the only remarkable feature was Noto- 

 donta bicolora, was knocked down at £3 ; and another lot, which included Bryophila 



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