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the midland counties, he thought it was not rare in the south, and where it occurred 
it was generally in great abundance. The capture of Thecla betulae was of great 
interest, as it had been inserted in Mr. Greene’s Irish list, with a query, and even 
in England it was of rare occurrence. 
Mr. James Haughton, jun., had also met it near Roebuck, county Dublin. 
Mr. R. P. Williams thought that the occurrence in numbers of the brimstone 
butterfly in Killarney was a matter of great interest, as this butterfly may be looked 
on as one of the rarities of the collector’s cabinet. In the Dublin collections he 
was only aware of two specimens, one in his own, collected by the late Cooper 
Hatfield, Esq., and one or two in the collection of the late Mr. Tardy, now in the 
possession of Trinity College. Both these gentlemen were frequent companions in 
entomological excursions, and the impression on his mind was, that all the speci¬ 
mens alluded to had been captured in the Vale of Avoca, which, at the time when 
the collections were made, was thickly wooded with large trees, the underwood 
abounding in the common buckthorn (Rhamnus frangula), which is one of the 
trees on which the caterpillars of this moth chiefly feed. 
The ballot having closed, the chairman declared the following gentleman duly 
elected as an ordinary member:—John Irvine Whitty, LL.D., M.R.I.A. 
EXTRA POPULAR MEETING. 
The third and concluding of this series of meetings was held on Thursday 
evening, June 25, 1856, 
John Aldridge, M.D., M.R.I.A., in the Chair. 
Doctor C. Farran gave a long and exceedingly-interesting paper on the mollusca 
of Ireland, in which he detailed, in a graphic manner, the more remarkable of his 
discoveries among these animals—viz., Pholas papyracea, Teredo norvagica, Fusus 
antiquus var. carinatus, and others of great interest, illustrating his remarks with 
a splendid series of shells, and in the conclusion of his paper adverted to the 
dredge as the greatest help the conchologist can possess. 
DUBLIN UNIVERSITY ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. 
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1856. 
R. Ball, LL.D., President, in the Chair. 
The following donations to the library were acknowledged, and thanks ordered to 
be given to the donors :—“ The Geological Observer,” by Sir Henry De la Beche, 
presented by J. Beete Jukes, Esq.; “ Guide to the Museum at Kew,” by Sir W. 
J. Hooker, by E. Percival Wright, Esq. 
The following extracts from a letter from J. C. Dale, Esq., corresponding member, 
were then read :— 
NOTES ON BRITISH INSECTS. 
Dates and localities of capture of some rare bees, in addition to those given by 
Mr. Smith in his list of British bees :— Halictus quadricinctus, August 29, 1828, 
on rock under cliffs, Isle of Portland. Andrena hattorfiania (olim hcemorrhoidalis ), 
July 9, 1830, a single specimen between Teignmouth and Dawlish ; Captain 
Blomer had taken several previously not far from Mainhead ; Mr. S. Stevens also 
took it in 1848 in a clover field near Buckland Wood, Devon. A. angulosa K. 
(which Mr. Smith gives as the male of A. helvola ), taken by Mr. Serrel, end of 
July, 1832, on Mount Barule, Isle of Man. A. nigriceps, two females found in 
a gravel pit between West Hurne and Parley Heath, July 12, 1823; and a few 
in sandy places at Bournemouth, Hants, June 19, 1846. A. aprilina y flying over 
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