82 
[September, 
noticed Zygcena loniceres , not rarely, but much worn), and this time I 
obtained Emmelesia alchemillata commonly, and in lovely condition, 
by beating brambles, with one fine specimen of E. blandiata. I worked 
hard for this latter insect at the time, as well as on a subsequent visit 
on July 13th, but without success: on the latter occasion I took a 
worn Eupithecia expallidata. 
Returning to Galway on July 9th, I found Argynnis Eaphia just 
coming out in Merlin Park, with the first lovely specimens of Metro- 
carnpa margaritata, Crocallis elinguaria , Melanthia albicillata , Cidana 
prunata and immanata , and Eyrausta purpuralis. Ellopia fasciaria 
was rare, and often worn, and Ehothedes captiuncula still lingered, 
though usually worn to a shadow. Rivula sericealis was rather trouble- 
some in point of numbers. 
At Bantry Bay, between July 16th and 21st, although the weather 
was very fine, and the country looked most promising — wide stretches 
of rocky, heathy, hill-sides, with numerous boggy places, and some nice 
little woods here and there — insects, with the exception of Eubolia 
palumbaria and biting flies, did not appear to be at all numerous. I 
picked up one fine Elusia festucce at rest on a heath-stem, and Ellopia 
fasciaria, Larentia ccesiata and salicata, Eseudoterpna cytisaria, Eupi- 
thecia nanata (very dark), Melanippe galiata, and Crambus pinetellus 
occurred, with others. 
Throughout my stay in Ireland, I was unable to collect later than 
9 p.m., which circumstance accounts for the comparatively very few 
Noctuce in the above record. 
12, Ranelagh Road, Marine Town, 
Sheerness : August &th, 1880. 
NOTES ON BRITISH TOE TRICES. 
BY C. GL BARRETT. 
( Continued from page 38). 
In former notes (E. M. M., vol. xvi, p. 243) I referred to larva? 
received from Mr. Machin feeding on Aster tripolium, and their 
probable distinctness from Catoptria cemulana , Schl. 
Erom these larvae the moths have now appeared. They prove to 
be identical with specimens formerly taken by Mr. Howard Vaughan, 
and since by Mr. Machin, on the Essex coast, and referred to under 
the heading of modestana , H.-S., in an earlier volume (E. M. M., vol. x, 
