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pastures of Clare. Near Clonbrock, and Castle Taylor, Merlin 

 Park, &c., abundant. Also at Tullamore, King's Co. ; at Crom- 

 lyn, Co. Westmeatb {Mrs. B.), and Clondalkin, Co. Dublin {Gr.), 



Ophiodes lunaris, Schiff. — Noticed as follows in Birchall's 

 'Catalogue': — "Two specimens captured at Killarney by the 

 late P. Bouchard in 1864." But in the ' Supplementary Cata- 

 logue' of 1873 he includes N. hicolora and this species in the 

 list of errata. There is no doubt in my mind of the authenticity 

 of Bouchard's captures at Cromaglaun Glen. His character, 

 according to the late Frederick Bond and other contemporaries, 

 was above suspicion ; and the subsequent captures of the former 

 species has dispelled all doubts as to its being indigenous in 

 Kerry. The Irish climate being in no way unsuitable to the 

 latter insect, I have no hesitation in reinstating the record in the 

 Irish list, more especially as I have been shown a specimen of 

 the same by Mr. Dillon, taken by Lord Clonbrock's gamekeeper 

 in his demesne in 1894. 



Catocala fraxini, L. — One was captured at Kingstown in 

 1845 by the Eev. Joseph Greene, and is still in his cabinet at 

 Clifton. 



Catocala nupta, L. — Curiously enough this handsome and 

 conspicuous moth has only been recorded as occurring in Ireland 

 as follows. The late Dr. Eobert Ball, sometime Curator of the 

 Trinity College Natural History Museum, reported its capture by 

 him to Mr. Birch all, but omitted to state the locality. Mr. 

 Cuthbert, of Blackrock, also informs me that he saw a specimen 

 on a tree at Blackball, Co. Louth, a few years since, but refrained 

 from taking it, as he only collected Coleoptera. There can be 

 small possibility of an error of identification in the case of so 

 large and conspicuous a moth. 



(To be continued.) 



SILK-PEODUCING LEPIDOPTEEA. 



By Alfred Wailly. 

 (Membre Laureat de la Societe Nationale d'Acclimatation de France). 



(Continued from p. 210.) 



Anther^a roylei, Moore (Himalayan oak silkworm), a 

 species closely allied to A. pernyi. The moths are of a lighter 

 shade of colour than those of pernyi, and have a greenish tint. 

 The principal difference between the two species is in the 

 cocoon ; that of roylei is white and covered by an irregular and 

 hard envelope ; the cocoon of pernyi, on the contrary, is of a light 

 brown or buff colour, and it has no envelope. Moths emerging 



