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LIST OF SPECIES. 
RHOPAEOCERA. 
Pierls brassioae — Common, 
rapae — Common. 
napl — Common. Occurs in the 
marshes on the Belfast hills up 
to 900 feet. The specimens are 
generally strongly marked on 
upper side, and the under side is 
sometimes very yellow. 
Eucbloe cardamines — Common. 
I have specimens from the Belfast 
hills expanding only 30 mm. 
Argynnis papbia — Donard de- 
mesne and other woods, but not 
common. 
Vanessa urticse — Common. 
atalanta — Not common generally, 
hut very abundant in 1893. 
cardui — Common in some years. 
Pararge egeria — Very abundant 
in all woods and lanes, from May 
to October. 
megaera — Local ; Islandmagee, 
Newcastle, &c. 
Satyrus semele — Very abundant 
on sandhills, Newcastle, &c. ; the 
[None of the Hesperidce are 
specimens are large and brightly 
coloured. 
Epinepbele janira — Common. 
Large and well marked ; females, 
with bipupilled ocellus and extra 
ocelli, sometimes occur. 
byperanthus — Common. 
Coenonympha pampbilus 
Common. 
Polyommatus pblaeas — 
Common. 
Eycaena i earns — Common. Large; 
males often very bright blue; 
females also very blue, with the 
marginal red spots strongly 
developed, and occasionally the 
discoidal spots on both wings are 
white-ringed. 
argiolus — - Donard demesne; 
common. 
minima — Antrim coast. Very 
abundant on Islandmagee ; male- 
often bluer than type, and some 
times showing the discoidal spots 
as in L. argiolus. 
recorded from this district.] 
SPHINGES. 
Acberontla atropos — Lisburn, 
&c. ; scarce. 
Deillpbila livornica — Two spe- 
cimens taken at rhododendron 
flowers in Ormeau Park, Belfast, 
June, 1888. 
Cbaerocampa elpenor — Larvae 
occasionally on Epilobium hirsu- 
turn about Belfast. 
Smerlntbus populi — Common. 
IMCacroglossa stellatarum - 
Scarce. 
bombyllformis — Common on 
Belfast hills. 
Zygaena filipendulae — Common. 
SOMBTCES. 
Hylopbila praslnana — Common. 
CTudaria mundana — Newcastle, 
&c. ; scarce. 
Rucbella jacobaeae— Common. 
Hemeophila plantaginis — Is- 
landmagee, very abundant; Bel- 
fast hills. 
Arctta caj a— Common. 
