6768 Insects. 



The following insects were also taken during our visit : — 



Hadena rectilinea 



Lampronia rubiella 



„ contigua 



Psychoides Verbuellella 



Agrotis saucia 



Adela Degeerella 



Tripbaena fimbria 



Prays Curtisellus 



Cymatophora fluctuosa 



Plutella annulatella 



Phoxopteryx biarcuana 



Gelecbia tripariella 



„ Myrtillana 



„ Mouffetella 



Grapbolita gemiuana 



(Ecophora lambdella 



Stigmonota perlepidana 



„ pseudo-spretella 



Lobesia reliquana 



Butalis grandipennella 



Eupoecilia nana 



„ fusco-seneella 



Clepsis rusticana 



Argyrestbia retinella 



Capua ocbraceana 



Gracilaria hemidactylella 



Pentbina sauciana 



Pterophorus bipunctidactylus 



„ ocbromelana 



Chilo forficellus 



Lampronia pralatella 





Including eighteen species not previously recorded as occurring in 

 Ireland. Although this looks a pretty fair result for one week's work, 

 still there was not that abundance of life that might have been looked 

 for in a district apparently so well suited to the requirements of living 

 creatures ; in the vast woods the silence of death seemed to reign : 

 with the exception of a few species insects were not numerous, and 

 the most promising-looking spot often proved a total blank. Of many 

 of the species above recorded only single specimens were observed. 

 Of birds we saw very few ; the wren only was abundant. We saw 

 one bullfinch, also the place where the eagles are not, — it is to be 

 feared this noble bird now only exists, with O'Donoghue and his fairies, 

 among the traditions of Killarney. 



The district is characterized botanically by the occurrence of 

 various plants, of which the following may be named : — 



Saxifraga umbrosa, Erica Macfcaiana, 

 „ elegans, „ mediterranea, 



„ hirsuta, Daboecia polifolia, 



„ Geum, Arbutus unedo, 



„ affinis, Pinguicula grandiflora, 



„ hirta, Arabis ciliata, 



which are not found in any other part of the British islands, or any 

 nearer point of Europe than the coast of Spain, with which country 

 the late Professor Edward Forbes suggested a connexion subsisted in 

 some past geologic age, by means of land over which the Atlantic now 



