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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



visited, for the last twelve months, our island, but which, few though they be, I 

 thought better to lay before the Association now, than defer them for another 

 year, in order that 1 might thereby add to their number. I wish to return my 

 best thanks to Robert Davis, Esq., of Clonmel, and Robert Warren, jun., Esq., 

 of Sligo, for forwarding, through me, to the Association, notes on such birds as 

 came under their observations. I hope that I may be excused for wishing that 

 other of our corresponding members will kindly follow their example, as I think it 

 will tend to the increase of the knowledge of our native birds, to bring before the 

 Association, each year, all the facts which can be procured concerning them 

 during that period* together with notes, on the first appearance and time of 

 departure of the summer visitants. 



Dr. Ball then exhibited a very fine specimen of Mergulus alle, procured by Mr. 

 Ogilby, in the County Tyrone, and shot thirty miles from the nearest sea. The 

 allied species Uria troile, or willock, is sometimes captured on the land ; find it 

 is an old notion of the Irish that this bird cannot fly over land ; it certainly seems 

 to prefer flying round the head-lands, rather than crossing them, as eagles and 

 sea birds generally do ; probably it is unable to rise from the ground, as is the case 

 with the albatross and some other birds. 



Dr. Ball also exhibited a piece of decayed wood, of unknown age, containing 

 some large specimens of Pholas crispata, trawled in Dublin Bay, near Lambay 

 Island. 



Dr. Carte exhibited specimens of the Teredo megotara, which he had found in 

 great abundance in a piece of wood, covered with the Lepas anatifa, and washed 

 ashore, near Merrion, during the stormy weather, in the early part of last month; 

 for it he was indebted to the kindness of Dr. Ball. 



Mr. T. W. Warren exhibited a very interesting series of the valves and pallets of 

 Terido bipinnata, from his collection. They were given him by Mr. Gabbett, of 

 Clare ; and in the same timber he found specimens of Pholas striata. 



Mr. Wright said that the finding of P. striata in company with T. bipinnata might 

 be a proof of the latter not being indigenous ; the former, according to Forbes and 

 Hanley, not being so. 



Mr. Walpole remarked that some of the pallets in Mr. Warren's collection were 

 covered with fine striae, which he had never before seen on any other pallets of 

 Teredo, nor was it mentioned by Forbes and Hanley. It might, possibly, be a distinct 

 species. Mr. A. R. Hogan then read the third and concluding part of his 



CATALOGUE OF COLEOPTERA, FOUND IN TlIE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF DUBLIN. 



Leiopus nebulosus, L. Ratlifarnham, 



&c. ; on chesnut trees. 

 Rhagium bifasciatum, F. Powers- 

 court. 

 Strangalia elongata, Ste. do. 

 Grammoptera ruficornis, F. do. 



„ laevis, F. Glasnevin, 



&c. ; on Umbelliferse. 

 Donacia cincta. Germ. Glasnevin Bo- 

 tanic Gardens. 

 „ crassipes, F. Taken by Mr. 



Tardy. 

 ,, Sagittariae, F. Portmarnock. 

 „ Proteus, Kunz. Glasnevin. 

 „ Lemnae, F. Taken by Mr. 



Tardy. 

 „ linearis, Hop. Glasnevin. 

 Crioceris cyanella, Ste. Firhouse. 

 „ puncticollis, Cts. Do. 

 „ melanopa, Ste. Rathfarnham 

 Park. 



Cassida rubiginosa, ///. Dodder banks. 

 Galeruca Tanaceti, L. Taken by Mr. 

 Tardv. 

 ,, Crataegi, Dft ? 

 „ Nymphaeae, L. Local. 

 ,, Capreae, Ste. ? Do. 

 Haltica Lepidii, Ent. Hft. Glasnevin 



and Portmarnock. 

 „ Brassicae, F. Taken by Mr. 



Tardy. 

 „ Nemorum, L. Local. 

 „ Rubi, F. Do. 

 „ caerulea, Pk. Phoenix Park; 



on flags. 

 „ ferruginea, Schr. Roebuck, 



Firhouse, &c. 

 „ flava, Ste. Local. 

 „ Helxines, F. Firhouse, &c. ; 



on willows. 

 „ Oleracea, L. Dodder banks. 

 „ Modeeri, F. Portmarnock? 



