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THE NATURALISTS’ JOURNAL. 
A VISIT TO BELLE-ISLE. 
Probably most of your readers are at the present ignorant of 
the existence of such a place. I say at present because I hope 
that this delightful spot, possessing such numerous and varied 
natural beauties, will not fail to receive at least a few profitable visits 
during the ensuing summer by those lovers of nature who read 
this paper. Belle-isle is situate on banks of L. Erne, exactly 
opposite the Knockninny Hotel, which is three miles distant by 
water. This Hotel, which has been built by my cousin, may be 
reached from Lisbellaw Station, on the G.N.R., between Dun¬ 
dalk and Londonderry. I shall be very happy to give any 
further particulars, if applicants will write to me at Branston 
Rectory, Lincoln. Although I merely staved there 3 weeks, I 
captured the following Lepidoptera in plenty:— P. napii, L. 
degeria , H. hype ran thus (very abundant), hybernated Atalanta , A. 
paphia (common everywhere), L. impura (crawling up reeds at 
night), Z. lonicerce , Filipendulcc, also 2 Tripoli/', L. rubricollis , PI. 
micacea , C. cytherea , T. pronuba, fimbria , orbona, ianthina. A. sege- 
tum , N. glareosa , augur , baja, C. trapezina , difinis, C. graminis , 
Plusia brae tea, iota, pulchrina, gamma, chrysitis, B. rhomboidaria, 
M. margaritata, a pretty variety of bilineata ; besides many others 
which would take too much time and space to mention. Water- 
fowl swarm on some of the islands and the following I saw in 
plenty, viz., Gannet, Goosander, Arctic Tern, Crested Grebe, 
Oyster Catcher, cormorants, gulls, etc. I am only a beginner 
and would not attempt to name everything I saw, suffice it to say 
that any entomologist or ornithologist who undertakes a ramble 
on the mountains or islands in the neighbourhood will find ex¬ 
penses and inconvenience amply repaid. Before I close I must 
record the" capture of PI. dipracea on the 15th of June in a clover 
field near Nocton, Lincolnshire. Perhaps some of your readers 
could give me a hint for finding larvae which ought to be feeding 
now. —E. Porter. 
THE HUMMING-BIRD HAWK-MOTH. 
On June 27th last, I had a specimen of this insect (M. stella- 
tarumj brought to me from the Stationery Department of the 
Great Western Railway, Paddington, w. The creature was 
running along the floor, and had evidently been brought up from 
the country by means of a hamper. It was given me alive, and 
was rather worn. A somewhat similar circumstance occurred in 
the Ticket-printing Department in the case of the small tortoise 
shell butterfly recorded in the Naturalist’s Journal, Vol 1. 
p. 34.—J. F. Cordon. 
NOTES FROM OSTEND. 
Ostend cannot be said to be flourishing in the entomological 
way, there being very few insects to be found round about it. 
