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THE earliest catalogues of Irish Lepidoptera were published by the Rev. Joseph Greene and the Rev. A. R. Hogan in 1854 and 1855 in the first two volumes of the Natural History Review, but were merely tentative, not only being very incomplete, but including many species on the evidence of collections without history, or else taken in localities where they were almost certainly introduced. These authors enumerated 636 species as Irish. The late Edwin Birchall's list, published in the Entomologists' Monthly Magazine from 1866 to 1868, was a much more valuable work. Mr. Birchall enumerated 974 species, though several included in the former lists were very properly omitted. The list now before us, which was originally published in the Entomologist from 1893 to 1900, is carefully compiled, chiefly from original sources, and brings down the subject to the present time; but the species are not numbered, and no comparison is made, as should have been done, with the number given in Mr. Birchall's catalogue.
A Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Ireland.
By W. F. De Vismes Kane. With a coloured plate. Pp. xviii + 166. (London: West, Newman and Co., 1901.) Price 10s.
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A Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Ireland . Nature 65, 172 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065172a0
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