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was found by Mr. Furlong. In this variety, although mature in the 

 black hue of the thorax, the elytra are pale -yellow, an oblong dark spot 

 on each standing out in strong contrast, placed nearly as in C. cerdri- 

 maculatum. On the sand-hills themselves Chrysopa abbreviata was more 

 common than I had ever before found it; and, along with it, the freckled, 

 sandy-coloured, stout larva, which, doubtless, feeds chiefly on the 

 Aphides that abound on the sea-reeds. The salt marsh along the shore 

 towards Baldoyle yielded Canace nasica pretty abundantly, the first time 

 I had observed the species here, though common on some of the western 

 coasts of Ireland ; with this was Glenanthe ripicola, not very numerous, 

 and a few of Atissa pygmcea. 



In search of some coleopterous larvae, I examined the North Bull 

 sands more closely than I had done before. I was struck with the my- 

 riads of individuals belonging to a few species of Diptera which peopled 

 the flat salt marsh on the landward side, where the sea-lavender (Statice 

 limonium) grows in such profusion. Madiza albipalpis abounded in its 

 favourite haunt, the blossoms of the sea-pink (Armeria ma/ritima) ; in- 

 finitely more numerous, however, was Leptomyza cinerella, especially 

 along the line where the mud passes into sand, with a scanty herbage of 

 stone crop ; neither was L. gracilis rare in that situation. In some 

 dried- up rushy flats I met with Campsicnemus pusillus — by no means a 

 common species in the British Islands — in company with the more com- 

 mon sorts, 0. seambus, curvipes, armatus, &c. 



On these sands I found, and have succeeded in rearing to the perfect 

 state, the larva ofJVemotelus uliginosus, of which I was enabled, by the 

 same experiment, to determine Alysia maritima as a parasite. This fills 

 up a gap in the natural history of the family Stratiomydse, of which 

 Nemotelus was the only indigenous genus the younger states of which 

 remained unknown, at least I am not aware of any published account 

 of it : yet it is singular if it be as I suppose, some of the species of this 

 genus being exceedingly common in the British islands, as well as else- 

 where. 



In conclusion, I extract some further notes by Mr. Wright, made 

 during the autumn, in the neighbourhood of Newcastle, county of 

 Down : — 



Notwithstanding the intense heat of the season, which, even tem- 

 pered by the sea breeze, at the lower level about the village was often 

 oppressive, the peak of Sliebh Donard, the highest of the Mourne moun- 

 tains, which towers directly from the sea to an elevation of 2789 feet, 

 was mostly wrapped in a fleecy mist; and on several occasions, when 

 the ascent was accomplished, the cold at that height was so severe as 

 speedily to cut short any attempt at collecting, and to compel a hasty 

 descent for shelter. One day, more favourable in this respect, permitted 

 a continuance for some hours on the summit, and rewarded the search 

 with several specimens of Calathus nubigena from beneath the stones, 

 which are strewed about the base of the great cairn, but only on the 

 southern side of this, and within a very narrow space. Arpedium bra- 

 chypterum was also found. The other Coleoptera observed were such as 



