46 I he Irish Naturalist. 



StaphylinidcBQiX 'rove-beetles' were common in the damp places, 

 amongst these was a single Actobizis proceriihis, Grav. There is 

 onl}^ one Irish example in the Museum collection, taken many 

 years ago in the Mourne Mountains, by that veteran of Irish 

 entomolog)', the late A. H. Halida}^ which, like many other 

 captures of equal interest, he seems never to have recorded. 

 The only other noteworth}^ representatives of this section 

 taken, were Homalota elongatida, Bris., evidently common, and 

 Tachyporus obtzisuSy var. nitidicoUis, Steph., a ver}^ well marked 

 melanic variet}', which would seem to almost replace the type 

 in Ireland, and, as we would expect, is much rarer in England 

 where the normal pale-coloured form predominates. 



Quite a characteristic insect was Halyzia co?igIobata, ly-, a local 

 'lady-bird' commonly obtained off the Alder bushes growing 

 along the bank. In Britain it has a southern distribution, and 

 as regards the north it has only been found in two localities, 

 Belfast, and Ballj^haise, Co. Cavan, where I had the pleasure of 

 taking a single specimen last autumn. By sweeping plants 

 in a marshy place near the Castle Hyde woods, there occurred 

 several examples of a Galeriicella which were mistaken for the 

 common G. nymphace^ but which proved on subsequent ex- 

 amination to be referrable to the rarer G. sagittarice, Gyll., an 

 addition to the Irish list. The two species are closely allied, 

 but when typical examples are compared, side by side, the 

 differences are at once apparent ; in the last British catalogue 

 they are evidently considered to be distinct. Amongst other 

 captures I may mention Cyphon nitidulus, Thorns., Bruchus 

 atomarius, L<., Lema lichenis, Voet., Afiaspis fnactdata, Fourc, 

 Apion h2wmli, Germ., Sitones sidciffons, Thunb., Eyirrhinus 

 acridiihis, L., Rhin incus peiicarpius, I,., and R. perpendicidaris, 

 Reich. Mr. G. H. Carpenter found in a meadow, larvae of 

 the long-horned grasshopper Leptophyes piindatissima, Bosc, 

 which he tells me had been only previously recorded from 

 Howth. 



The Heteroptera taken at Fermoy were not numerous ; the 

 large green 'shield bug' Peiitatoma p^asiyia, I^in., was the most 

 important, our knowledge of this species as Irish rested on 

 two specimens without localitj-in the collection of Mr. Haliday ; 

 the possession of definitely localised specimens is therefore 

 satisfactory. Orthotylus flaviriervis, Kb., occurred on the Alders. 

 Several of the members noticed the beautiful dragon-fly 



