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Geometer, which was fljing about wildly near an oak tree, attracted my attention ; 

 but being armed merely with a walking stick and two or three small boxes in my 

 pocket, I could only look on and wonder what it was ! Presently it came down and 

 settled on a sallow leaf at the edge of the ride, and, on creeping up, I caught sight 

 of a magnificent specimen of E. irriguata ! So near and yet so far ! For although 

 I could, and did, gaze at and admire it to my heart's content, there were unluckily 

 three or four sallow leaves on the same twig, which would almost certainly prevent 

 my getting a box near it without disturbing it. At last the attempt had to be made, 

 and — with the expected result, for, owing to those few provoking leaves, I had the 

 mortification of seeing the moth fly off and disappear in the high copse-wood. The 

 disappointment, however, of not securing it was a mere trifle in comparison with 

 the pleasure of having met with it in this neighbourhood. I have always had a 

 lurking hope of doing so some day — firstly, because we find here a fair number of 

 the species which, like E. irriguata, are almost entirely confined to the New Forest 

 distl-ict, of which this practically forms an outlying portion ; and secondly, because 

 it occurs at Grlanvilles Wootton in the north of this county. — Eustace E. Bankes, 

 The Rectory, Corfe Castle, Dorset : May 6th, 1893. 



EupWiecia dodoneata on hawthorn. — I have read with interest a note of the 

 Rev. W. F. Johnson's, of Armagh, in a recent number of the Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine, respecting the occurrence of this species on hawthorn. I took 

 some pupae under hawthorn bark in the Phoenix Park last March, which have proved 

 to be this species ; there were no oak trees near. — J. N. Halbeet, 13, JSTelson iStreet, 

 Dublin: May IWi, 1893. 



Feronea perplexana, Bt., near Glasgow. — Some little time ago, Mr. Barrett, 

 while examining my collection, picked out a number of specimens of the above species 

 taken at Cadder Wilderness and Mugdock Woods, near Glasgow, also one specimen 

 on the Moose Water, Cleghorn, near Lanark. They were all mixed with P. Schal- 

 leriana, a species which is very common at all the localities mentioned. — James 

 J. F. X. King, 207, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow : May, 1893. 



Oxyptilus parvidactylus, Hato., in Ireland. — This species occurred in quantities 

 along the railway banks near Athlone, when I was there in 1888. I might have 

 taken any number if I had been so disposed. I do not think that the species has 

 been reported for Ireland before. — Id. 



Early Spring Insects. — On April 22nd I went down to Ringstead on the 

 Dorset coast and saw Colias Edusa (both sexes) out, fine and fresh ; Polyommatus 

 Agestis and Icarus, Chrysophanus Fhlceas. Lasiommata Megcera (very common), 

 Cosnonynipha Pamphilus, Thanaos Tages, Poedisca Brunnichiana, Bibio marai, 

 Tipula vernalis, Phalerocera replicata, Libellula depressa, and Agrion pulchellum. 

 On April 21st, at Glanvilles Wootton, Argynnis Euphrosyne was out commonly 

 (Lewin recorded this in April, 1775, but I know of no later instances) ; also Syrichthus 

 alveolus, Eupithecia indigata, and Eupoecilia maculosana. On April 24th were out 

 Cidaria silaceata, Acidalia remutata, Heliodes arbuti, Cabera pusaria, Lozogranima 

 petraria, Lomaspilis marginata, Pyrausta purpuralis, Herbula cespitalis, Pardia 

 tripunctana. On Api'il 4th, Euholia llncolata at Deal ; on March 28tli, Uasystoma 



