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VIII. 



A NEW SPECIES OP TOBTBIX FEOM TUAM. By GEOKGE 

 H. CAEPENTEE, B. Sc, Assistant Naturalist in the Science 

 and Art Museum, Dublin. Plate VII. 



[communicated by PKOFESSOK a. C. HADDON, BI.A., F.Z.S.] 

 [Eead January 21, 1891.] 



Early in June of last year (1890) Mr. D. O'C. Donelan, of 

 Sjlan, Tuam, forwarded to me some pine shoots, with small cater- 

 pillars which, he stated, had caused much damage, in the summers 

 of 1889 and 1890, to a plantation of firs situated partly on bog 

 and partly on upland tracts. Some of the caterpillars pupated 

 very soon after arrival. About the middle of July three moths 

 (all males) appeared, and my surprise was great to find that they 

 very closely resembled Tortrix viburnana. My caterpillars had all 

 by this time either pupated or died, and, wishing to preserve the 

 larva of so interesting a form, I asked Mr. Donelan for some more. 

 He informed me that they had nearly all disappeared ; but he 

 succeeded in finding a specimen, which he kindly forwarded in 

 August. From this my present description and drawing are taken. 

 It may be of interest to note that it was attacked by a dipterous 

 larva, perhaps a species of Anthomyia. 



My colleague, Mr. A. E. Nichols, kindly took one of the moths 

 to London, and submitted it to Mr. W. Warren. A few weeks 

 ago I was able to visit London myself, and had the advantage of 

 looking up the subject at the British Museum, under Mr. Warren's 

 kind guidance. He has no doubt that the insect is, as yet, unde- 

 scribed. 



It appears to Ibe identical with the moth figured in Herrich- 

 Schaffer's " Schmetterlinge von Europa," vol. iv., fig. 419, as a 

 variety of Tortrix steineriana, Schiff. This figure, however, is very 

 unlike the true T. steineriana [op. cit., vol. iv., figs. 57-8), and the 

 author, in his Appendix {pp. cit., vol. vi., p. 155), expresses liis 



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