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nalis, Acentropm niveus, 0. culmeUus, Dictyopteryx bergmannianat Hypono- 

 meuta cagnagellus, Depressaria chcerophylli, Endrosis fenestrella. 



August. — Heliophobus popularis (several), Luperina testacea, Agrotis 

 nigricans, Noctua c-uigrwn. Lamps : L. cespitis, Eiigonia tiliaria, Asjd- 

 lates ochrearia, Cidaria truncata, C. immanata, Anaitis plagiata. Electric 

 light : Triphana comes, T. iantJdna. 



September. — Xanthia fulvngo, Polia flavicincta, Chesias spartiata, 

 Stenopteryx noctuella. Lamps : Noctua xanthographa, X. gilvago, X. fer- 

 ruginea, Catocala nupta, Evgonia fuscantana, Thera variata, Cidaria 

 miata. Electric light : Nonagria liitosa, Noctua gJareosa. 



October. — Lamps : Hydra^cia micacea, Anchocelis pistacina, A. litura, 

 Miselia oxyacaiithcB^ Oporabia dilutataf The7'a firmata (13th!), Eubolia 

 cervinaria, Depressaria applana. 



November. — Hybernia defoliaria, Cheimatobia brumata. Lamps : Pcecilo- 

 campa populi. Electric light: H. aurantiaria. — Claude A. Pyett ; 

 Ipswich, November, 1895. 



A CATALOGUE OF THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF IRELAND. 

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



(Continued from p. 19.) 



Hecatera chrysozona, Bork. — Included in the Rev. J. Greene's 

 list of Irish Lepidoptera, but without data given. Several, both 

 larvae and imagines, have been taken at Clonbrock {R. E. D.). 

 Said to have been found on shores of Lough Foyle by Curzon. 



Hecatera serena, Fb. — Very local, and usually scarce. Spe- 

 cimens with the central band broad and dark, and the white of 

 the base and subterminal area reduced in size, occur. One var. 

 leuconota at Cappagh, Co. Waterford. Portrane, somewhat abun- 

 dant {F. N.) ; Howth (B.), Killiney (S.), Co. Dublin; Tinahely 

 (Btv.) and Greystones, Co. Wicklow; Belfast (Bw.), Cromlyn, 

 Go. Westmeath [Mrs. B.) ; Ardrahan (Miss N.) and Clonbrock, 

 two (R. E. D.), Co. Galway; Roches Point, Cork. 



PoLiA CHI, L. — Widely distributed and frequently common. 

 Neither the grey var. suffusa, Tutt, nor var. olivacea, St., nor 

 Mr. Porritt's melanic form has been taken. The black net- 

 work and X mark are sometimes faintly but often strongly 

 marked, the females being greyer. The most dingy specimen I 

 have comes from Ardrahan, Galway. I have noticed consider- 

 able numbers very conspicuous on the black basaltic rocks about 

 Downhill, Co. Derry, no protective colouring being noticeable. 



[Polia flavicincta, E^h. — Mr. Birchall never took this insect 

 in Ireland, I understand. He gave Co. Wicklow as a locality on 

 hearsay evidence, but there is every possibility that it may 

 turn up.] 



