The Hornet Moth (Trochilium crabroniformis, Cl.) in Co. CorkAuthor(s): R. A. PhillipsSource: The Irish Naturalist, Vol. 3, No. 10 (Oct., 1894), p. 223Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25520716 .

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ZOO0LOGY.

Vespa arborea (austrlaca).--Further Records.-l- capturec a queeni of this species about the miiiddIle of last July, iai tlle nursery gar (deni, Moklcstown, and(I anlotlher was takeni, somewlvt earlier, by Mr. ?rerke at Dundclrumii. Both; Mr. Freke's spccinxen and nliilC were taken in comllpanly witl V. sylvestris. The id entity of our 1. azrborca with thle Continental V. aush-tnca cani onily i)e fully conifirmiied by the discovery of thle male. The besXt way to secure this wouildl seenm to be by examination of the n1ests Of V; Sy?vcb-ixr if, as seems probable, F. arbiwnva be really an

inquiline sp?eC1Xies inlihcbiting1 the niests of the former.-H. G. CUTXT-h3ERP, Bilackrock, Dublin.

ClmOex femorata, LIln. In Co. DublIln.-Exa'ilat1ion of tlle British Mluseuili collectioii lias coilvilce(1 ille tlatt. t1ie iliale Cinlibices taken by Mr. J. J. Dowliig (p. 176), atC remarkably lairge exan iples of tllis Species, aiidl neither C. coni/zrad, ior American immiiigralnts as I at first sttlposed.l Mr. Dowlinlg as kindly writteni to iniformii m11e that the inlsects were tlakezl tat Foxrock, niot at sStillorgai1-G11QRI -r.

CARPINWTI-R.

The Brown Hal rstreak(ThecIa betulae) In County Wexford. -In Mr. Kane's list of Irisli Lepidoptera, Mulnster algl4 Gaiway are llenltioIeld ass tllis rare Britislh Butterfly a Irislh Tlhiatats. It is an insect of ann1ual occurrence, ini Killoughrim Forest, Co. Wesford, fromi which locality I sent Mr. Kane a miiale adlcl a lfemale in i889. Mr. Kanie, in his reply, was goodl enlouglh to iniformii me tllat tlley were the onily Irish

specimien1s of 7heea beta/lde lie had seen so the oliiiSsioii of Co. Wexford froni hlis list m11ust be dlue to an1 oversighlit. I have pickedI up with ml y finiger annd thluiib four of these Butterflies in sIuccessioni wlhile walking tlhroulgh the forest witlhout a niet. In soie seEasons, lhowever, they are by nio mleans so easy to obtain. Othier local Irislh Butterflies which fre quenit Killouglhlrinll Fororest and its outskirts are the Purple Hairstreak (Th eia quzercns), CGreasy Fritillary Aeiliatcm attinda), aiid Dinigy Skipper (Nisoniades tares).-C. B. MOvFAP. Btallvllvlallal.

The small Heath Butterfly (Coenonympha pamphlius): Slngle or DoulIe-Broodecl ?-I cannot agree withi a remark I see

made in thle Sebruary nrLumiber (p. 44) by Mr. C. WV. Watts, that CPxonmw,ohma pa#z' hilus, thiougl regularly (louble-brooded. in Rngland., is in IrelandI usually sinigle-b )roodledl. I dlo niot doubt its being silngle brooled in Ulster, but shoild he Surl)rise(l to learni that southlerni ol>3 Servers consider it so ill tlhir (istricts. In Wesford it is a norually double-brooded. inisect, appearing al)out the eiad of May an( C1i( of Jilly. This year the second. l)roodI was freslly out in pro-fusion oni July 3otlh. In ir86, however, I find( August 4 tll notedI ts thle (late of its emiiergence

wvhile in otlher years I have 'such (Iates as August 3st andiSeptem:iberStli mentioned. as those oni whliel the latest speciniens were observed. The q.uestion- of th'is Butterfly's single or double-broodedness is one on which1 it wouldl dotubtless in1terest mianiy read.ers of the Zrish Na{turalist to have a comparison of notes fromn various dlistricts, n:ortlh, south, and nilidland. C. B. MoPFAr.

The Hornet Moth (Trochillum crabron1formiss Cl") In Co. Cork.-On July 21st while botaniizing near Berelaven I captured1 a good specimiien of this very pretty insect. Mr. Carpeenter, who has

kinidly conifirmuedI my detern1inationi of ttle species, states that it lias not been previously recorded for this connty.-.R. A. PnxxrJ4r$, Cork.

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