62 The Irish Naturalist. March, 



(Jiinatum, Fab.); Cercyon littoralis, depressus, a.n6. Jlavipes ; Cryptopkurum 

 atomarmm. 



Staphyllnldae — Aleochai-a fuscipes, brevipennis, lanuginosa, succicola, 

 Homalota elongattila, vestiia, vicma, fungicola, and volans ; Conosojna ptibescens 

 and lividum; Tachyporus obtusus, \. tii'tidicollis, common; T. /or mosus swe-pt 

 rather freely off herbage down a chine ; in the Irish I^ist it is pointed 

 out that the previous records of this species require confirmation ; T. 

 solutus and chrysofnelinus ; T, hictnerosus in moss, not recorded from Mun- 

 ster in the Irish List ; T. hypnoruui and brumiejis ; Tachinus rufipes ; 

 Megacroniis analis, Rossbeigh under stones ; Bolitobius exoletiis, evening 

 sweeping, not recorded from Kerry in the Irish Ivist ; Heterothops hinotata 

 on the sandhills, not recorded from Munster in the Irish List ; Qiicdius 

 fulgidus under dead bird ; Q. molochiniis, tristis, and fidigino:>iis ; Q. picipes 

 under stone, not recorded from Munster in the Irish List ; Creophilus 

 viaxillosus, very common under carrion, also taken under stones at the 

 foot of cliff feeding on sand-hoppers, some forms occurred with a large 

 proportion of black pubescence giving them a very dark appearance, the 

 V. ciliaris, Steph., was also not uncommon, and various intermediate forms 

 were uoted^; LeislotJ-ophus fnuriniis ; Staphylinits ptibescens^ erythropterus, and 

 ftf-jarfj/zj- not uncommon on roads ; Ocypus oletis, ciipreus, and morio ; Phil- 

 onthus splendens,' in stercore on sandhills, not recorded from Kerry in the 

 Irish List J P. anetis,\varius,'°' and niafgmattis ; P. timbratilis^cephalotes, and 

 ^ metariu s, ' Caragh Lake ; P. qtiisqtiiliarius. Sheen River ; P. irussuhis ; Cafius 

 fiicicola, xantholoma, and'v. z'a/vW^j^/j', Sharp. ; Xantholimis glabrattis^ on sand- 

 hills; X . piinctitlatus and linearis ; Othins fidvipennis ; Lathrobiiwt fulvipe7ine 

 and brunnipes ; L. let mitiattim.ty^Q, from Caragh Lake; L. muUipiinctatum, 

 not uncommon, not recorded from Kerry in the Irish List ; Stilicus orbicu- 

 latus and affinzs, Medon propinquus ; Paderus fuscipes, common; Dianous 

 ccEitiJescens under stones in stream, not recorded from Kerry in the Irish 

 List ; Stemisjuno, and speculator; S.pitsillus, several specimens, not recorded 

 from Kerry in the Irish List ; S. brunnipes, picipes, crasstis, inipressus. and 

 similis. Bledius spectabilis in some numbers at Kenmare, it is not recorded 

 from Munster in the Irish List. Bledius arenarius common on the sand- 

 hills, not recorded from Munster in the Irish List ; Platystethus arenarius ; 

 Oxytellus rugosus, lagueatus, and tetracarinatus ; Trogophloeus bi lineal us ; Lesteva 

 pubescens ; Omalium rivulart. 



Pse I a p h 1 d 8C . — Pselaph us Heisei. 



^\\\iY\\aae.— Liodes humeralis, under bark; Choleva longula, sweeping 

 in wood at Rossbeigh, not recorded from Kerry in the Irish List ; 

 Necrophorus mortuoruju, flying at Glencar, not recorded from Kerry in the 

 Irish List ; Necrodes littoralis. under dead calf on sandhills ; Silpha opaca \ 

 S. airafa, v. subrotundata, common, both the black and brown forms 

 being taken. 



Hlsteridae. — Saprinus nitidulus and marilimus. 



Coccinellldse. — Coccinella de^empmutata ; C. unidecempuuciata, and the 

 var. con/lucns, Donis., occurred in numbers on the sandhills, in a 

 similar place to that in which the Rev. Canon Cruttwell took it in 

 Galway— with us it was accompanied by the type It is evidently a 



