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The Irish Naturalist. 
May, 
NOTES. 
ZOOLOGY. 
Some recent Records of Irish Insects. 
I have read with much interest Mr. J. N. Halbert's article in the 
September number of the Irish Naturalist (vol. xxiv. pp. 157-165), and 
beg to make the following remarks. Some years ago a number of specimens 
of Gonepteryx rhanmi, together with its food plant, were introduced into the 
south of Co. Tipperary Up till that time the species had only been recorded 
from Co. Kerry and the following counties lying west of the Shannon, viz., 
Clare, Galway, Roscommon, and Mayo. Since the introduction of this alien 
colony in Co. Tipperary a specimen was captured and another observed at 
Dunmore, Queen's Co. (see Irish Nat., vol. v., page 87). Now after a lapse of 
some years Lt.-Col. Mander's capture of a single specimen in Co. Kildare is 
reported. May not these latter records have originated in the introduction of 
the species in Co. Tipperary ? It is curious that both Dunmore and the 
Curragh are in a direct line to the north-east of the locality where the insect 
was formerly introduced. 
The capture of Anthncera trifolli^ if correct, reinstates this species in the 
Irish list of Lepidoptera, as hitherto A . lonicerae was the only representative 
of the five-spotted group of Burnets known with certainty to occur in Ireland ; 
this latter insect is abundant on the limestone formation in this district, and 
confluent spotted forms are not very rare, although in Great Britain the case 
is the reverse. 
Thomas Greer. 
Stewartstown. 
Rare Lepidoptera. 
A friend has in his collection of Irish Lepidoptera a specimen of Laphygma 
(Caradrina) exigua, which he informed me he captured at Ragweed flowers on 
the shore of Lough Neagh, near Lurgan, Co. Armagh, in 1904 ; he also met 
with Notodonta bicoloria in a new locality in the south of Ireland. When on a 
visit in Co. Roscommon, in July, 1904, I observed numerous larvae of 
Asphalia flavicornis on Birch bushes, and have several images which I bred 
from a few of the larvae which I brought home. This insect still appears to 
be very rare in Ireland, being only recorded from three localities, viz., Derry, 
Enniskillen, and Clonbrock. 
Thomas Greer. 
Stewartstown, Co. Tyrone. 
