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Insects. 



us hope they are sufficiently grateful to Providence for their good 

 fortune, and proceed to business. Our captures included — 



Hydrelia Bankiana. In abundance. 

 It is out a full week earlier than last year ; 

 the caterpillar is said by Stainton to feed 

 on grasses, but the moth seems attached 

 to the Mvrica Gale ; it flies about sunset, 

 but is easily disturbed at any time, settling 

 again within a few yards. 



Erastria fuscula. 

 „ uncana. 



Cabera strigillaria. Quite a dif- 

 ferent looking insect to the English 

 C. strigillaria. 



Macaria notataria. 



Melanippe hastaria. 



Phytometra aenea. 



Corycia temerata. 

 „ taminata. 



Euthemonia russula. 



Lasiocampa Quercus. 



Thecla Rubi. 



Ccenonympha Davus. 



Saturnia Carpini. Larva? abundant. 



Hypena crassalis. Flitting about 

 the gloomiest parts of woods in plenty. 



Eupithecia debiliaria. On the steins 

 of the old holly trees, from which a smart 

 blow is required to dislodge it : the labour 

 of taking it til this way is, however, very 

 great; perhaps we got one specimen for 

 every hundred trees examined. 



On our way back called at the Tower, to see P. Bouchard : he showed 

 us a splendid male specimen of Notodonta bicolora, captured the pre- 

 vious week. Sugared in the evening, but with no result. Noctuae 

 seem very scarce. 



June 20. Over the same ground, and captured most of the species 

 taken yesterday, also Melitaea Artemis, Hyria auroraria and Ligdia 

 adustata. On swampy ground near the lake took a pair of Dolomedes 

 fimbriatus, a monstrous aud horrid-looking spider. Mr. Meade, of 

 Bradford, to whom I am indebted for the name, informs me that it is 

 not a common species ; fortunately so, I think, for it has a very 

 tropical and truculent aspect. 



June 21. To the Gap of Dunlo, and thence round the lakes to 

 Killarney ; heavy rain most of the day. Our only captures were 

 Melanippe hastaria, Macaria notataria and Melanthia albicillata. The 

 brilliant flowers of Pinguicula grandiflora studded the sides of this 

 rugged mountain pass, which, although shorter than Llanberris, I 

 think far exceeds it in grandeur. 



June 22. My companions ascended Cromaghlan Mountain. On 

 the summit is a small tarn, which appears to have no connexion with 

 the lakes below; from it were obtained many specimens of the 

 Lirnneus involutus of Harvey ; I believe no other locality is known 

 for this curious and fragile shell. Donacia nigra (taken on the bank 

 of the tarn), Olinda Ulmana and Emmelesia taeniaria (beaten from 

 hedge-rows), and a pair of Microdon apiformis (Diptera) were our 

 only entomological doings worth recording. 



