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The Irish Naturalist. 



January, 



beautiful fresh female of Diacrisia sannio [russula), the first 

 of this sex I had met with ; we had caught males at Portnoo 

 before but no females, so I was very pleased at this capture. 

 The moth was sitting" low down on the grass and its 

 detection does credit to Mrs. Johnson's keenness of sight. I 

 found a nice specimen of Boarmin repandata sitting under 

 a window sill, and took Miana fasciiincnla on thistles on 

 the sandhills, the latter were rather worn and faded. On 

 almost the last day of our \'isiL 1 saw among herbage on 

 the roadside a little black moth with whiie spots on its 

 wings. I netted it and it proved to be Eunychia ocioinaculata, 

 a species I had no^ previously met \vith. This ends the 

 meagre list from Portnoo. 



After our return home, ^Irs. Johnson and 1 were in 

 Xewry on July joch and her sharp eyes detected FSyyophila 

 perla on the wall of one of the markets ; and on September 

 loth she pointed out to me Liiperiua test ace a on a shop 

 windovv- in Sugar Island, Xewry. This specimen was larger 

 and darker than usual. In July I gathered some umbels 

 of Hog-weed on which larvae were feeding, .these pupated 

 and from these pupae Depressaria heracleana emerged at the 

 end of August. 



August 27th was one of the few really fine days we 

 had, and I took advantage of it co walk round by fields 

 with mv net and picked up a nice Pyraiista aiirata, and 

 on the following day I iomidiHydroecia niditans on Ragweed. 



On September 15th I walked down the canal bank to 

 look for Sawflv lar\-ae on some bushes of Salix pentandra 

 and found larvae of Dicranuva vinula and Notodonta ziczac. 

 On mv way home I saw a nice fresh specimen of the Red 

 Admiral. On September 29th I saw three more in another 

 direction, and on October 2nd had the pleasure of seeing 

 this beautiful butterfly in my flower garden. On November 

 6th my terriers found a nest of half grown rats under a 

 heap of leaves and sticks. To help the dogs I turned over 

 the heap and out of it flew several small light-coloured 

 moths. They were very sluggish, and having a killing- 

 bottle in mv pocket I had little difficult}- in securing 

 specimens. On examination I found that they were 

 Depressaria areiiclla. This seems a late date for these 



