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Insects. 



The following insects were also taken during our visit : — 



Hadena rectilinea 

 „ contigua 



Lampronia rubiella 

 Psychoid es Verhuellella 

 Adela Degeerella 

 Prays Curtisellus 

 Plutella annulatella 

 Gelechia tripaviella 



Agrotis saucia 

 Triphaena fimbria 

 Cymatophora fiucluosa 

 Phoxopteryx biarcuana 



Myrtillana 



„ Mouffetella 

 CEcophora lambdella 



„ pseudo-spretella 

 Butalis grandipennella 

 „ fusco-aeneella 



Grapholita gemiuana 

 Stigmonota perlepidana 

 Lobesia reliquana 

 Eupoecilia nana 

 Clepsis rusticana 

 Capua ochraceana 

 Penthina sauciana 



Argyresthia retinella 

 Gracilaria hemidactylella 

 Pteropborus bipunctidactylus 

 Chilo forficellus 



„ ochromelana 

 Lampronia praelatella 



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 Mackaiana, 



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 



elegans, 



hirsuta, 



Geum, 



affinis, 



hirta, 



„ mediterranea, 

 Daboecia polifolia, 

 Arbutus unedo, 

 Pinguicula grandiflora, 

 Arabis ciliata, 



