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tration and the foregoing description, which latter, I fear, rather 

 lacks lucidity, I should be most happy, on hearing from him, to 

 send one of the ''rests" as a pattern. It is much more easily 

 made than described. The best way to get the correct measure- 

 ments is to mark them off with a rule on the tin strip before 

 bending into required shape ; with the pliers, bending can then 

 be performed with exactness. 



Mitcheldean : May 11th, 1896. 



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. 214.) 



Anarta myrtilli, L. — Very common in all moors and bogs. 

 The colour varies from a bright brownish red (not so brick-red 

 as in some English specimens I have seen) to a dark reddish 

 black. In the bright specimens the white strigse, &c., are well 

 marked, but in the dark forms (from Markree Castle, Sligo, 

 Toberdaly, King's Co., Belleisle on L. Erne, and Altadiawan, Co. 

 Tyrone) they are partially and sometimes almost wholly obsolete, 

 especially on the basal area (var. albirena, Haw.). 



Heliaca tenebrata, Scoj). — Rarely met with. Markree Castle 

 {Miss Cooper) ; Killarney (i^.), and Sneem, Co. Kerry {K ). 



Heliothis scutosa, Scliiff.— One specimen was taken Sept. 

 19th, 1878, by Mr. David C. Campbell, of Ballynagarde House, 

 near Derry, and identified by me. It was netted flying to the 

 flowers of ragweed on the shore of L. Swilly near Buncrana. In 

 view of the doubts raised some time since as to the bond fide 

 occurrence of this rare insect in England, which were, I think, 

 satisfactorily met by confirmatory evidence of capture, this un- 

 doubted record of a capture in Ireland is of the highest interest. 

 Mr. Campbell and myself have subsequently visited the locality 

 in vain for other specimens. 



Heliothis peltigera, Schiff. — I have met with a few speci- 

 mens only, but it would not be safe to assume this as a criterion 

 of scarcity, as very few southern localities have been tested, and 

 those for the most part only during a hasty visit when yachting. 

 Greystones, Co. Wicklow, one ; Castlehaven and Crookhaven, 

 Co. Cork, a few. 



Heliothis armigera, Hh, — Howth (Holt); Glengariff, Co. 

 Kerry {Meek), 



Chariclea umbra, Hufn. — Local and scarce. The specimens 

 I have taken or examined are of the rich ruddy form. Birchall 



