NOTES ON IRISH NATURAL HISTORY. 173 



Kirby. My friend the Comte de Castelneau arranges with 

 them the Lehiadce. Preferring the English authorities, in 

 my Manual I have adopted their views. As a group it ap- 

 pears (as far as is known at present) to frequent northern 

 climes, no instance having occurred of its appearance in 

 southern regions. 



Sp. 1. riparius of Linnaeus and Olivier appears to be the self- 

 same species, the riparius of Schrank however is El. uli- 

 ginosus of Fabricius. 



Sp. 2. paludosus. This is probably only a variety of the 

 preceding species. 



Sp. 3. caraboides. This insect is apparently unknown in the 

 Parisian collections at present. Schonherr evidently regards 

 it as a distinct species. It is singular that the Baron De 

 Jean does not mention it in his last Catalogue. 



Sp. 4. littoralis. This species cannot be considered as an 

 Elaphrus. The Baron De Jean, in his Catalogue of 1833, 

 applies the name of littoralis, Megerle, to another species 

 of Elaphrus from Himgary ; it would be better to substi- 

 tute that of Megerlei or Dejeanii for the last species, in- 

 stead of the name already used by OHvier. 



Sp. 5. aquaticus. Now a Nothiophilus of Dumeril : for an 

 account of our British species I refer to Mr. Waterhouse's 

 Monograph in the first volume of the ' Entomological Ma- 

 gazine,' in which eighteen species are described. 



Art. IV. — Notes on Irish Katural History, more especially Ferns. 

 By Edward Newman, Esq., F.L.S., &c. 



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It was a brilliant morning when I took my leave of Sheely, 

 and a last lingering look towards those beautiful caverns, 

 which, once to have seen, is worth more than the fairest pic- 

 ture of imagination. The road towards Cahir is wide and 

 straight ; it possesses little to interest the traveller, except 

 the joyous faces of the happy people, whom I met by 

 crowds on their way to the market at Mitchelstown. The 

 poorer Irish appear to me the most easily contented, and the 

 most philosophically and truly happy of any peasantry I have 

 ever seen ; faithful, generous, warm-hearted, fearless, and 

 reckless : they smile in peace over a handful of bad potatoes, 

 and devoutly thank the Providence who provides it. Oh ! 



