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little Phothedes captiuncula, flying in tlie hot sunshine like a Pyrausfa , 
which it much resembles on the wing, being difficult to see as well as 
to catch. Phodaria sanguinalis was much more conspicuous, and, with 
Enrvychia octomaculalis and cingulalis , Pyrausta ostrinalis , Argyrolepia 
. Baumanniana , and Pterophorus tetradactylus, was fairly well repre- 
sented in point of numbers : Phycis subornatella and Pterophorus 
hieracii (?) being much scarcer. Aspilates strigilaria and j Eubolia 
palumbaria occurred sparingly, and the pretty little Cidaria fulvata, 
commonly, flying over the low hazel and holly bushes, towards sunset : 
Thera variata swarmed in a plantation of Scotch firs, the moths coming 
down out of the trees like a brown snowstorm. The only Corycia 
temerata which I caught was a good variety, the usual black clouding 
of the fore-wings being almost absent. On the railway-bank, close to 
Gralway, Polyommatus Alsus was abundant, and with it Melanippe 
tristata and Euclidia glyphica occurred rarely. 
On June 22nd, the ship went to the islands in Kilkerran Bay, 
about twenty-five miles west of Gfalway, but I could find very few 
insects on the barren granitic rocks of Dinish and Burnish, the only 
islands I was able to visit. 1 Tepialus velleda flew rather freely at 
dusk, with a few of the var. carnus, and fine PL. humuli : by mothing, 
I got such common things as Noctua plecta and c-nigrum (one fine 
specimen on the 25th) , Axylia putris, Caradrina Morpheus , Eupithecia 
centaureata , Melanthia ocellata. Euchelia jacobcece was common, and 
Calosetia nigromaculana of occasional occurrence, among ragwort, and 
Orthotcenia antiguana was not rare (but often worn) among Stachys 
arvensis, growing in patches of oats. The Pterophori were represented 
by lithodactylus and bipunctidactylus. 
June 30th was a fine hot day, succeeding a three days’ gale from 
the south-west, with continuous rain. In Merlin Park, Satyrus Hyper- 
anthus was out in great profusion, with a few richly marked of 
S. Semele. Zygcena nubigena was represented only by three or four 
worn stragglers, but Phothedes captiuncula was more common (though 
far from numerous) than I had previously seen it, as well as easier to 
secure, several being boxed while feeding on the flowers of the wild 
thyme. A second brood of Ennychia octomaculalis was out, and in a 
wet place close to the railway bank, I caught a specimen of Chilo 
mucronellus : this spot had previously yielded C. forficellus and Para- 
pony cc stratiotalis, as well as a good supply of Ilydrocampa stagnalis. 
On July 5th, the “Hawk” was again in Kilkerran Bay (the 
previous day, while walking near Boundstone, Co. Oalway, I had 
