Notes on Irish Lepidoptera, (241, 
It is very remarkable that of the large number of fen and marsh 
insects which occur in England hardly one-third have been found 
in Ireland; for instance, in the Leucanidae, out of thirty-one 
English species only thirteen are Irish. 
This seems a proper place to notice some insects included in a 
catalogue lately published in the “ British Association Guide to 
Dublin,” none of which the present writer would be inclined to 
accept as Irish unless on more full and satisfactory information 
than has been ascertained up to this. 
It is to be regretted that special localities have not been given 
for the rarest and local species, so as to enable subsequent ob- 
servers to verify the localities. 
It is also singular that a large number of these insects are in- 
serted on the authority of one collector, who must have been 
especially fortunate to obtain so many rarities in a limited local- 
ity, viz. :— 
Gonepteryx rhamni. 
Vanessa polychloros. 
Sesia apiformis. 
Lithosia quadra. 
Eurymene dolabraria. 
Trachea piniperda. 
Tueniocampa miniosa. 
A few other species in the “Guide Book” list require a few 
words of comment. 
Argynnis selene was taken by Mr. Henn at Edenderry, in 
Queen’s County, not at Templeogue. 
Vanessa C.-album. The insect seen by Mr. Crewe was on the 
wing, and at a considerable distance, so that it seems probable it 
was some Fritillary, perhaps a male Argynnis paphia with broken 
hind wings, such as I have often met with, may have deceived 
even the experienced eye of the Rev. Mr. Crewe. 
Deilephila ewphorbiae. This insect has been put down in the 
“Guide Book” list as occurring frequently at Killiney. It has 
only been observed there by the late Mr. Hely some fifty years 
ago. A boy last year got a larvee, which he thought was this 
species. I would be inclined to refer it to D. galii. 
