THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



[November 



readers of this paper can supply me with, from notes, diary records, 

 &c, since the year 1S50. The species selected are Daplidice, Edusa, 

 Antiopa, Carduii, Galii, and Livemica, and I shall be glad to receive 

 any such information, either through the medium of this magazine or 

 direct. The results of this investigation will in due couse be published. 

 — W. E. Sharp, Hallwood, Lidsham, Chester. 



[Mr. Sharp will find very full details of the occurrence of the four 

 of the first-named, in Mr. Dale's " History of the British Butterflies," 

 published as a Supplement to the Young Naturalist. — Ed. Y.N.] 



On the Lepidoptera of Ireland. 



By C. S. GREGSON. 



The following list of the lepidoptera collected by my friend, Mr. 

 E. R. Curzon, in the counties of Antrim, Derry, Dublin, and Galway, 

 during the summer of 1889, will be interesting to those who are study- 

 ing the fauna of that country. I have appended a few remarks to the 

 more interesting species, and would call special attention to the 

 large number of species taken. 

 Pieris 



brassicae. 

 rapse. 



napi. Feeding on watercress (Nastuvtum officinale) ; many 

 specimens taken, all large and mostly very dark. 



Vanessa 



urticae. 

 Satyrus 



egeria. Large and dark ; very fine, 

 megsera. 



semele. From County Derry ; very bright coloured, 

 tithonus. 



hyperanthus. Large. 

 Chortobius 



pamphilus. Fine. 

 Polyommatus 



phlaeas. 

 Lycasna 



alexis. 



alsus. 



