1893.] 281 



margin is given a drawing o£ the fringe o£ the pygidium from my 

 specimens, and which wall be found to agree with Mr. Morgan's 

 figure (I.e.). 



EERATA. 

 Page 186, for "Aspidiotus affinis," read "A. diffinis," the name affinis, 

 not OFFINIS, as Comstoet has it (Rept., 1883, p. 72), being pre-occupied. Page 188, 

 for " DiASPis OPUNTi^," read " E. opunticola," the name opunti^ being pre- 

 occupied. 



Chester : September, 1893. 



LUPIDOPTUBA OP ENNISKILLEN. 

 BY LIEUT. -COLOJSTEL C. E. PAETRIDGE. 



Though I believe the neighbourhood of Enniskillen has been 

 visited by Entomologists, and cannot, therefore, be considered virgin 

 soil, yet the work has been of such a desultory character, that any 

 notes on the Lepidoptera of the district cannot fail, I hope, to be 

 of interest to collectors, and more particularly to those w^ho may 

 chance to find themselves here. On these grounds I have ventured 

 to note such insects as came under my observation during 1893. In 

 this work I have had the assistance of Captain Brown of my regiment, 

 but though for the most part we worked entirely independently of 

 each other, our note books show that practically our observations are 

 identical. The list is but a meagre one, comprising only 283 species ; 

 our work was carried on under considerable difficulties. 



To begin with, we were strangers to the district, and experience 

 had to be bought at a considerable sacrifice of time. The season 

 (here, at any rate) was the worst I have experienced since I commenced 

 collecting, and was so abnormally early that all one's calculations w-ere 

 upset. Sugar throughout was a failure, and not an insect came to it 

 until the middle of June. The prevalence of honey dew, the long 

 drought, the abundance of flowers on all sides, unworkable because 

 growing in the mowing grass which covers the whole mountain side, 

 all militated against success. Such few w^oods as exist are devoid of 

 undergrowth, and proved as they looked, devoid of insect life. I had 

 anticipated a good haul from the shores of Loch Erne, but they yielded 

 very little, principally owing, in my opinion, to the recent drainage of 

 the lake, which has considerably altered its level and brought the 

 swamps of a few years back under cultivation, and has wiped out such 

 insect life as existed previously. 



To sum up, I think Enniskillen and its immediate neighbourhood 



