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A calico sleeping bag for use in the country inns is a great luxury. 
The upper part should be made of muslin, and the bag altogether 
should be of a length sufficient to admit of its mouth being tied up 
from the interior and turned back over the face or under the head. 
Aotes on the Entomology of Portugal,” containing no allusion to 
this item of economic entomology, would indeed be incomplete. 
51, Park Road, Bromley, Kent : 
4 th August, 1880. 
NOTES ON THE LJEPID OPTPRA IN THE WEST OF IRELAND. 
BY JAMES J. WALKER, R.K. 
On the 24th February last, H. M. S. “Hawk,” to which I was at 
the time attached, left Sheerness to join the squadron of small vessels 
engaged in distributing relief to the distressed inhabitants of the 
western coasts and islands of Ireland. The ship was employed on 
this duty until July 22nd, w r hen she finally left Bantry Bay for 
England. A few notes on the Lepidoptera which came under my 
notice during that interval (for the most part on the coast between 
Galway Bay and Lough S willy) may not be devoid of interest. 
Although I found Coleoptera sufficiently well represented, both by 
species and individuals, at Galway, in March, I did not take a moth until 
April 6th, when I was rather surprised to meet with a good specimen 
of Calocampa vetusta , under a stone on the very summit of Croagh 
Patrick, near Westport, 2500 ft. above the sea-level. The next week 
I picked up single examples of Trachea piniperda and Cidaria miata , 
the latter in very fine condition, at Galway, where, on April 17th, 
JPieris Napi , Anthocharis cardamines, and Satyrus AEgeria were already 
on the wing. The last-mentioned insect was common (and very fine) 
at Queenstown, a week later, when. Cidaria suffumata , Fupithecia 
pumilata , and (I think) trisignata, also put in an appearance. 
At Galway, Folyommatus Argiolus was not rare in Merlin Park, 
some three miles from the town, during the first week in May, with 
Thanaos Pages , JYola cristulalis, Thera variaia (not rare) , Fidonia ato- 
viaria , Venilia maculata, Fnnychia octomaculalis, and others, on the 
wing at the same time. 
Leaving Galway on May 10th for a cruise to the northward, I 
had very few T opportunities of collecting insects (except on the glorious 
sea-cliffs of Slieve League, Co. Donegal, near the summit of which 1 
found Saturnia carp ini, Fidonia atomaria, Fupithecia nanata, Ac.). 
