JUL ii9 1920 



July, i()2o. The Irish Naturalist. 6i 



SOME COLEOPTERA AND LEPIDOPTERA FROM 

 COUNTY KERRY. 



BY L. H. BONAPARTE-WYSE. 



With regard to Mr. O. E. Janson's interesting list of 

 coleoptera taken during last June on a tour in Kerry 

 (antea, pp. 1-7), I have thought it worth while to supplement 

 his captures with a few of my own. Although some time 

 was spent together collecting in Muckross demesne and on 

 the lake-shores adjoining, I felt desirous at times of extending 

 my explorations further afield in the hope of adding to our 

 joint captures. Thus I took a trip to the Tomie Woods 

 with Mr. Bullock on June 4th, which resulted in our beating 

 from oak a few Silpha quadripunctaia — an addition to the 

 Kerry fauna. We found the oak-leaves much damaged by 

 the caterpillars of the Green Tortrix Moth (Tortrix viridana) 

 on which the Silpha was evidently preying, and a good 

 many larvae together with the active pupa were taken and 

 the moth reared in due course. Kane- does not record this 

 destructive insect from Kerry. On June 6th, a fine sunny 

 day, I spent a few hours on Ross Island where the Narrow- 

 bordered Bee Hawk-Moth (Hemaris tityus) was met with 

 in some numbers but in very poor condition, only one 

 specimen taken being fit for the cabinet. It was pleasant 

 also to see a few specimens of Gonepteryx rhamni on the 

 wing, a butterfly which is scarce and local in Ireland though 

 long known as an inhabitant of the Killarney district. 

 Towards the middle of June I made an attempt to ascend 

 the Purple Mountain, the highest peak of the Tomie range, 

 but had not the time to attain my objective. I got as far, 

 however, as the intermediary peak marked on the map 

 (Ordnance survey) as 2,503 feet high but to which no name 

 is attached. My only capture of note for the day was a 

 fine specimen of the rare ground-beetle Carabus glabratus 

 which I found crawling about near the summit of the 

 Sheehy Mountain. 



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