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LIST OF SPECIES. 



HHOPALOCERA. 



Pleris brassioae — Common. 

 rapse — Common. 



napl — Common. Occurs in the 

 marshes on the Belfast hills up 

 to 900 feet. The specimens are 

 generally strongly marked on 

 upper side, and the under side is 

 sometimes very yellow. 



Euchloe cardamines — Common. 

 I have specimens from the Belfast 

 hills expanding only 30 mm. 



Arfynnis papilla — Donard de- 

 mesne and other woods, but not 

 common. 



Vanessa urticae— Common. 

 atalanta— Not common generally, 



but very abundant in 1893. 

 cardui — Common in some years. 



Parargre egeria— Very abundant 

 in all woods and lanes, from May 

 to October. 

 megaera — Local ; Islandmagee, 

 Newcastle. &c. 



Satyrus semele — Very abundant 

 on sandhills, Newcastle, &c. ; the 



specimens are large and brightly 

 coloured. 



Eplnephele janlra — Common. 

 Large and well marked ; females, 

 with bipupilled ocellus and extra 

 ocelli, sometimes occur. 

 hyperanthus — Common. 



Coenonympha pampnllus — 

 Common. 



Poly ommatus phlaeas — 

 Common. 



lycaena icarus — Common. Large; 

 males often very bright blue ; 

 females also very blue, with the 

 marginal red spots strongly 

 developed, and occasionally the 

 discoidal spots on both wings are 

 white-ringed. 

 argiolus — Donard demesne; 



common, 

 minima — Antrim coast. Very 

 abundant on Islandmagee ; male- 

 often bluer than type, and some 

 times showing the discoidal spots 

 as in L. argiolus. 



[None of the Hesperidce are reeorded from this district.] 

 SPHINGES. 



Acherontia atropos — Lisburn, 



Deilipfaila llvornica — Two spe- 

 cimens taken at rhododendron 

 flowers in Ormeau Park, Belfast, 

 June, 1888. 



Cheerocampa elpenor — Larvae 



occasionally on EpiloUwm hirsu- 

 tism about Belfast. 



Smerlnthus popull — Common. 



ItXacroglossa stellatarum - 

 Scarce. 

 bombyliformls — Common on 

 Belfast hills. 



Zygaena fillpendulae — Common. 



BOMBTCBS. 

 Hylophila praslnana — Common. KTemeophila plantaglnls — Is- 



XTudarla mundana — Newcastle, landmagee, very abundant ; Bel- 



Ac. ; scarce. fast hills. 



Buchelia jacobaese— Common. Arctla caja— Common. 



