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cannot be relied upon as a distinguishing mark. I have not found the extreme light 

 or dark forms at all common at Portland, and if this be the case in other localities, 

 it may somewhat account for the fact that the two names had stood together in our 

 lists for 22 years. It would be interesting to hear the experience of entomologists 

 living at Brighton and other places where the insect occurs. —Nelson M. Richard- 

 son, Montevideo, near Weymouth : Fehruary, 1890. 



Lepidoptera in Armagh in 1889. — The following have not been previously 

 recorded from this district: — Pwcilocampa populi, a, S flew into Derrynoose Rec- 

 tory, and was duly captured for me, on November IStli ; Derrynoose is about six 

 miles from this, and at a considerably greater elevation. A ? emerged at the end 

 of December, from pupa dug near here. Agrotis suffusa, Phlogophora meticulosa, 

 Noctua rubi, N. umhrosa, Anchocelis pistacina, Calymnia trapezina, Scoparia an- 

 gtistea, and Platyptilia gonodactyla, were takcTi at sugar in my garden, at the end of 

 August and early part of September. Tlie first two, though such common species, 

 I had never even seen here before, last year, however, they were very plentiful. 

 Leucania impura I took in the Mullinures, hovering over grassy drains at dusk, in 

 July. Plusia iota was captured in July at flowers in my garden. In a lane about 

 half a mile from the town I captured at dusk, on June 27th, Hadena adus/a, Cram- 

 bus selasellus, Sciaphila (Cnephasia) suljectana, S. virgaureana, and Swammer- 

 damia griseocapitella. There was a good deal of honeysuckle in flower in the 

 hedges. Zanclognatha grisealis, Etipithecia vulgata, E. ahsinthiata, E. rectangulata, 

 Scoparia amhigualis, S. truncicolella, Tortrix riheana, Dictyopteryx Bergmanniana, 

 Penthina variegana, Pardia tripnnctana, Sericoris rivulana, S. lacunana, Prays 

 Curtisellus, and Plutella porrectella, all occurred in my garden at dusk, in June and 

 July. Of Epione apiciaria, one specimen was caught by Mrs. Johnson, on August 

 13th, in the evening, in the lane leading down to the Mullinures, and another was 

 beaten out of a sallow bush on September 3rd, very much the worse for wear. 

 Beating and sweeping through the long grass, &c., in the Mullinures, in the after- 

 noons, produced, in May, Stigmonota perlepidana, Cnephasia mnsculana, and 

 Blabophanes rusticella ; in June, Bactra lanceolana, Eupoecilia angustana, Tinea 

 tapetzella, Crambus horhiellus, C. pratelhis, Elachista nigrella, and E. cygnipennelJa ; 

 in July, Crambus perlellus, Swammerdamia spiniella, Bryotropha terrella. In 

 the evenings in the same locality I captured, in June, AcidaJia scutulata and Pe- 

 lurga comitata, and at the end of July, Noctua umhrosa and Orthotfcnia antiquana. 

 Eupithecia constrictata I took along with Tinea merdella and Scoparia ambigualis, 

 in the Folly, which is a kind of public park, with a good many trees in it, and a 

 stream running through it. In the same place I took, on October 2nd, Thera 

 variata ; it was sitting on a blade of grass close to a fir tree. Acentropus niveus 

 occurred at Coney Island, in Lough Neagh, on August 16th ; I, unfortunately, only 

 got one specimen. Beating the reeds and long grass on the edge of Lowry's Lough 

 brought me Crambus pascnellus, C. culmellus, Aphelia osseana, Scop, {pratana, Hb.), 

 Catoptria fulvana, and C. ulicetana. Tortrix palleana, Hb. {icteraita, Frol.), I 

 knocked up out of grass in the Palace Demesne, on the afternoon of July 2nd ; I 

 only got a single specimen. Amphisa Qerningana I took on the heathy bog at 

 Churchill, where I get Selidosema ^dumaria and Coenonympha Davus. The Peronece 



