taken in the North of Ireland. 501 



IlyloMus Abietis. Fab., S. El. ii. 464. 130. June, 1823. Several 

 specimens flying and alighting on Equisetum, in a marshy 

 field near Holywood. It has not occurred since. 



Dry'inus formicariusy Latr. On a mossy bank at Holywood, in 

 April, 1826. 



Anopheles maculipennis, Meig., Eur. Zw. Ins. In profusion, in 

 the neighbourhood of Belfast, throughout the summer and 

 autumn. 



2. A. bifurcatus, Meig., ibid. With the last ; taken but once. 



A female. 



3, A» — ^— ? A smaller species. Thorax lead colour, the 



sides with a blackish line ; abdomen dusky, margins of the 

 segments paler ; feet dusky; wings obscure hyaline, nervures 

 and scales blackish. 

 In shady situations by running waters ', a pair taken in July. 



As Dianous ccerulescens is rather a local species, I may mention 

 the following habitat. Banks of the Dee in North Wales? 

 ApriU 



I have not seen it remarked in any work to which I have 

 access, that in one section of the genus Haltica the antennae have 

 the second joint obsolete, so that they appear 10-jointed ; to 

 this division (which is also distinguished by the characters pf 

 thorax and elytra) belong 



H» Hyoscyami. 



H. affinis, H. atridlla of Panzer and Donovan. 



H, nigricollis. E. B. 

 probably also H. erythrocephala^ if. chrysocephala^ H, Napi, 

 and H. Mercurialis, 



It is stated in Kirby and Spence, Int. to Entomology, iii. 686, 

 note, that Dermestes Armadillus, De Geer, is monomerous. If 

 this be correct, Gyllenhal is mistaken in citing that synonym fpr 

 his Scaphidium Armadillo^ which I find to be distinctly penta^ 

 merous. 



