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Fourth and last moult, SGtli September. 



Spun up for pupating, 18th October. 



A male emerged 16th November, followed by two other males 

 the same day; others emerging on the 21st and 2r)th, and the 

 last, a female, on the 8th December. 



Five females captured 5th September, near Guildford ; large 

 specimens. Confined all five on growing plants of clover the 

 next day. The first few ova were deposited on the 13th and the 

 last on the 19th; about 200 in all were deposited by the five. 

 The first lot of ova from each female commenced hatching on the 

 23rd September, and by the middle of October 170 larvae were 

 doing well, when a cold, sunless week with frost set in and 

 proved fatal to all. None of them exhibited any intention of 

 hybernating, but all the C. hyale larvse I had feeding at the same 

 time did enter into hybernation. So far as my experience goes 

 with G. edusa I am led to believe that it does not hybernate as a 

 larva. 



Balham, S.W., February, 1893. 



A CATALOGUE OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF IRELAND. 



By W. F. de Vismes Kane, M.A., M.R.I.A., F.E.S. 



(Continued from p. 159.) 



Var. scotica. — I have adopted this name because I find it has 

 crept into use in catalogues for a Scottish variety, hitherto 

 undescribed. Mr. Robson, it seems, was the first to use it, 

 under the impression that Mr. Birchall had employed it for 

 some Scottish form attempted to be represented in the unsatis- 

 factory figure accompanying that of his var. hibernica. It may, 

 therefore, be convenient to attach it definitely to the very distinct 

 variety taken in Aberdeenshire, in which the black ground is 

 intense and extremely predominant, filling the basal area of all 

 the wings up to the fulvous discoidal patch in the fore wing, and 

 the pale central series of the hind wing ; the pale discoidal spot 

 of which, however, is usually retained, and sometimes traces of 

 fulvous near the costa. In the outer area of the wings the black 

 invades the coloured patches, obliterating some and reducing the 

 size of the rest. The straw-coloured patches are of a duller tone 

 than those of the preceding variety. The fulvous submarginal 

 band of the fore wing is suffused centrally with yellowish, but that 

 - of the hind wing usually retains its normal colour and size. In 

 Mr. Adkin's series, from Aberdeen, there is a male with the straw- 

 coloured patches very large and bright. Expanse : 1 in. 5 lines 

 — 1 in. 6 lines 5" ; 1 in. 8 lines — 1 in. 9 lines ? . Localities : 

 Cromlyn, and Killynon {Miss R.), Co. Westmeath ; also at Moy- 

 cullen, Co. Galway, and Toberdaly, King's Co. Irish examples 



