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A CATALOGUE OF THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF IRELAND. 



By W. F. DE VisMEs Kane, M.A., M.R.I.A., F.E.S. 



(Continued from p. 273.) 



ZYGMNIDM. 



Ino statices, L. — Widely distributed throughout Ireland, and 

 locally common in some places. Westmeath, Cromlyn [Mrs. B.), 

 and very abundant at Killynon ; also at Drumreaske, Monaghan ; 

 at Galway and Woodlawn {A.) ; Markree Castle, Sligo ; Bandon, 

 Cork (L.), &c. 



ZYGiENA FILOSELLE, EsjJ., V. nuhigeua. — This was first recorded 

 by Mr. A. G. More, formerly Curator of the Museum of Science 

 and Art, Dublin, from Castle Taylor demesne, Co. Galway. Mr. 

 Birchall was of opinion that the type as well as the variety were 

 found by him ; the former at Sir J. Redington's demesne at 

 daring Bridge, and the latter at Kilcolgan and Ardrahan ; but 

 I believe it is now generally agreed that the Galway burnet as 

 well as the Scottish insect should all be classed as the variety 

 nuhigena. It seems to be widely spread, but very local in the 

 west of Co. Galway from Salthill, where it is abundant {B. E. D.) 

 through the Barony of Dunkellin to the Co. Clare. The type is 

 described by Zeller in the ' Isis ' as frequenting open places 

 among birch and fir woods. Guenee states that the v. nuhigena 

 frequents open fields among mountains, and not shady places as 

 77iinos, from which it differs by the border of the hind wings, and 

 especially by the internal angles, which are tipped with dark 

 grey ; by the red spots on the fore wing, which extend as far as 

 the cellular bifurcation ; and by the body being dark brownish 

 black instead of blue. The following memoranda on the distri- 

 bution of the insect in Great Britain may be of interest : — 

 Cornwall (' Science Gossip,' xvii. p. 41, &c.) ; Abersoch on the 

 north shore of Cardigan Bay (Entom. xxiii. p. 366). Two dark 

 forms from Carnarvonshire were exhibited, by Mr. Jenner Weir, 

 at a meeting of the Entomological Society. Dr. Buchanan White 

 records it from Forfarshire and at Oban (Entom. ix. p. 142). 



Zyg^na tbifolii, Esp. — Local and rare. Castle Taylor, 

 Galway {A. G. M.) ; Armagh, one specimen (J.); Inishowen 

 Head, Co. Donegal (IF. E. H.) ; in some numbers in a meadow 

 in Monaghan near Favour Royal, Tyrone. 



Zyg^na lonicer^, Esp. — Local and rare, but more abundant 

 where found than the preceding. It was first captured by the 

 Rev. W. F. Johnson at The Mullinures, near Armagh, in 

 abundance, where was also taken one Z. trifolii. I also took a 

 single specimen at Ballinskelligs Bay, Kerry, in 1888. 



ZYGiENA FiLiPENDUL^, L. —" Everywhere, but most common 

 on the eastern side of the island. It occurs on the same ground 



