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Ballycastle, and Dundrum. I have no experience of the Antrim 
hills north of Larne, but they are so similar to the Belfast hills 
that their fauna is probably very much the same. 
I will now proceed to describe some of these localities more 
particularly, and mention some of the insects that occur in each. 
It will, of course, be understood that I do not imply that these 
are the only, or the best places for collecting, but that they are 
the places with which I happen to be familiar, either because 
they were convenient to the part of the town where I lived, or 
because they were favourite places for holiday-making. 
About a quarter of a mile north of the second lock on the 
Lagan there are some low-lying marshy fields. To the N. and 
E. the ground rises pretty steeply, and in the N.E. corner is a 
pond. Along the side of the slope is a disused water-course, 
which formerly, I believe, supplied the town. It is now filled 
with water-plants, Spargantum , Ins, and various reeds and 
grasses. When in flower in June and July these reeds attract 
numbers of Noctuce , the larvae of which feed on the leaves in the 
autumn and spring. The most abundant species are Leucania 
p aliens, impura, comma and lithargyria ; Tapinostola fulva, 
Noctua umbrosa , baja, c-nigrum, j estiva, rubi, and xantho- 
grapha , Apamea leucostigma and didyma , the last in great 
numbers and infinite variety of colour and markings. 
Earlier in the season several species of the genus T xniocampa 
may be found feeding at the blossom of the willow at night. 
Flying over nettles and flowers in the summer, we may net 
Plusia pulchrina, chrysitis and festucce , Dianthcecia nana and 
capsincola, whose larvae feed in the seed capsules of Silene and 
Lychnis. To capture these Noctuce in the summer months, the 
collector must keep late hours, for they do not settle down to 
feed till it is really dark, and in these latitudes that is not before 
half-past ten. From this time until midnight they can be taken 
off grass and reed flowers by the simple process of enclosing 
them in a chip-box after examining by the light of a lantern to 
see whether they are worth taking. They seldom attempt to 
fly ; at the most, they sometimes drop to the ground or into 
