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patches at base of the inner margin and elsewhere, is occasionally 

 met with. 



Hadena trifolii, Rott. — " Near Dublin, by the Rev. Joseph 

 Greene" (B.). Mr. W. E. Hart reports having taken a specimen 

 at Kilderry, near Derry, but I have not seen it. 



Hadena dissimilis, Knock. — The Devil's Glen, Wicklow, not 

 common (B.) ; Castle Bellingham {Thornhill), and nearDundalk, 

 Co. Louth, pretty numerous; Castle Gregory, near Traiee, 

 Kerry, not rare ; Clonbrock, Co. Galway, a few {R.E. D.). My 

 Kerry specimens, and Mr. Thornhill's from Castle Bellingham, 

 are referable to var. sitasa, Bork. 



Hadena oleracea, L. — Very common everywhere. The usual 

 form is that with bright rusty brown ground colour, and well- 

 marked stigmata and subterminal line. But specimens with 

 dark brown ground, marked only with an orange trace of the 

 reniform stigma, and an almost obsolete subterminal line, occur 

 on islands off the Kerry coast, and occasionally elsewhere. 



Hadena pisi, L. — Widely distributed, but rarely numerous. 

 The Linnean type appears to be of a ferruginous ash colour 

 ("ferrugineo-cinereis"), clouded with grey. I have a Scandi- 

 navian example of it which closely approaches Mr. Tutt's descrip- 

 tion of his var. })allida. I have not met with the type in Ireland. 

 The very unicolorous yellowish-red type (var. ritfa, Tutt) is very 

 rare here, and I have never met with it of so yellow a tone as in 

 English examples I possess ; but the mottled form of it, varying 

 in distinctness of pattern but decidedly redder than English 

 examples, is more frequent (var. distincta-rufa, Tutt). The some- 

 what unicolorous purplish form, var. scotica, Tutt, I have not 

 seen ; but the majority of Irish specimens belong to the mottled 

 purplish form with pale or ashy-grey stigmata and markings, 

 and is frequently extremely bright and handsome. Var. splendens, 

 St., I have from Toberdaly, King's Co., and Favour Eoyal, Co. 

 Tyrone, of a ruddy brown, indistinctly marked with strigse and 

 stigmata, and the subterminal line nearly obsolete, except at the 

 anal angle. I have a specimen of this also from Scandinavia. 

 I cannot agree with Mr. Tutt in placing it near the type, which 

 he gives in his classification, by some oversight probably, as 

 having ** a red-brown ground." Beside the foregoing there are 

 in Ireland (found rarely) brown forms, from a bistre tone to an 

 ashy grey-brown, with the subterminal line sometimes quite 

 obsolete, except a trace at the anal angle, and, on the other hand, 

 sometimes of twice the normal width throughout. These forms 

 I have taken at Killary Bay and Clonbrock, Co. Galway ; Drum- 

 reaske, Co. Monaghan ; and the neighbouring Co. Tyrone ; 

 Markree Castle, Sligo ; and Killynon, Co. Westmeath ; and the 

 var. distincta-scoiica from the same ; while the ruddy forms are 



