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The Irish NaturalisU 



September, 



crocicapitella, Clms., in the counties Dublin and Sligo, 

 apparently the first definite record of the species from Ire- 

 land. 



Judging by the numbers of Irish butterflies and moths 

 recently exhibited at meetings of the London entomological 

 societies, collectors still think it worth their while to visit 

 this country in search of specimens. Apart from rare and 

 local species it is well known that many of our commonest 

 insects are of great interest from the standpoint of variation. 

 As an example one may refer to a note by Mr. Mathew^ 

 commenting on the great variability in a series of specimens 

 of the common moth Odontopora hidentata bred from eggs 

 laid by a Cork specimen. The caterpillars were reared to 

 maturity, and the resulting moths were very varied " hardly 

 one of them being typical, and there were some very beautiful 

 forms amongst them." No less than six of the more 

 remarkable are briefly described by Mr. Mathew. 



At a meeting ot the South London Entomological 

 Society, Mr. L. W. Newman^ exhibited a series of Lepidoptera 

 captured in counties Cork, Kerry, and Clare, including 

 very light examples of Aplecta nehulosa, very dark Luperina 

 cespitis, Aphantopus hyper anthus with a greenish shade on 

 the underside, and bred specimens of Diantho&cia capsophila 

 and D. luteago var. Barrettii. No information is given of the 

 markings of the last-named species which is the very local 

 Howth Dianthoecia. Very probably Mr. Newman's speci- 

 mens are the same as the distinctly-marked grey form 

 discovered a few years ago by Major Donovan on the Cork 

 coast. At the November meeting Commander Gwatkin- 

 Williams^ showed females of the common Meadow Brown, 

 Epinephele janira, with banded hind wings ; a Cidaria which 

 may possibly be C. concinnata : X author hoe montanata with 

 band obsolete ; Anthocera trifolii with confluent spots, and 

 female specimens of the Orange-tip Euchloe cardamines, 

 with ochreous hind wings. 



At the annual exhibition of varieties held by the same 

 society, Mr. Newman'^ showed " a large selection of specimens 



1 Entomologist^ xlvii. (1914), p. 132. 



2 Entom. Mo. Mag., 1. (1914), p. 19. 

 ^ Entom. Mo. Mag., 1. (1914), p. 45. 



* Entom, Recordj xxvi. {1914), p. 265 and 269, 



