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be uninteresting to some of your readers. In the first place, 

 I must say / did not work very hard at insects, my attention 

 being divided between insect-hunting, fishing, scenery and 

 gaining health, and the weather all the time being very 

 unfavourable, nothing but dry north-east or north-west winds 

 prevailing from the 4th of May, on my arrival in Dublin, till 

 the 6th of June, the day I left Kingston for Holyhead on my 

 return, and with very little rain, — I only required to use my 

 umbrella twice the whole time, — which, they tell me, is 

 something unusual for Ireland, which is considered the 

 Niobe of nations. Insects — as a rule, in Ireland — appeared 

 to me to be very scarce, except, perhaps, the Diptera; but I 

 was much struck with the great numbers of M. Cardaraines 

 flying all along, on sunny days, the banks of the railways 

 and the roads throughout the whole of Ireland which I 

 visited ; it was certainly the most abundant butterfly ; next, 

 R. Rhamni, hybernated specimens ; then the small tortoise- 

 shell (V. Urticse) and peacock (V. lo) frequently put in an 

 appearance ; and two species of the common Pontias and 

 P. Alexis and T. Rubi were abundant near Killarney : and 

 this completes the list of butterflies which came in my way. 

 In marshy places, near the Middle and also the Upper Lake, 

 E. Bankiana was very common, flying over the heath with a 

 common species of Crambus, but, strange to say, I did not 

 fall in with Uncana ; but I was very pleased to meet with 

 parties who saw alive several specimens of Notodonta 

 bicolora, or Micholora as they call it, there taken by the 

 late Peter Bouchard ; and I was pointed out a birch tree, 

 where he found a specimen at rest on the trunk. I was too 

 early myself for this insect ; but I spent a day in the planta- 

 tions, where they were taken, and found it very hard work, 

 not being at the time very well. I dont see any reason why 

 this insect should not occur again there, if any good collector 

 could spend a few weeks on the spot, and is not afraid of 

 hard work and getting wet feet in the swampy boggy places 

 where it occurs. Coleoptera were generally very scarce and, 

 what I met with, nearly all very common. I annex a list of 

 the species found, kindly determined by Dr. Power, with 

 their localities ; those from Ballina occurred mostly in Sir 

 Arthur Gore's park, about a mile from the town ; they were 

 principally taken on the 20th May. From this place I went 



