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late of Sligo, the greater part of whose valuable collection of lepidoptera 

 has been secured by the Dublin Museum. He informs me that he took 

 the insect on the edge of a wood at Rockwood near Sligo, at the height 

 of about a thousand feet, during the summer of last year (1894). A high 

 wind was blowing at the time, and he believes that the butterfly had 

 been blown down from higher ground. The specimen is a female 

 somewhat rubbed, the wings expanding ij inches, and with the fulvous 

 markings and black spots rather clearer than in most of the British 

 specimens of var. cassiope in the Museum collection. 



As this locality is about fifty miles from the previous station for the 

 insect (Croagh Patrick, Co. Mayo), we may hope that the species has a 

 fairly wide distribution among our western mountains, though it is 

 doubtless excessively local. Like many other alpine insects, it ranges 

 much further south in Ireland than in Great Britain, where it is known 

 from the hills of Scotland and Cumbria, but not from those of Wales. 

 On the continent it is found in the Alps, the Pyrenees, and the 

 mountains of Hungary, Avhile the type of epiphron occurs in the 

 mountains of German}^ and northern France. 



Geo. H. Carpenter. 



Thecia betulae in Co. Wexford. — I owe Mr. Kane an apology for 

 having quoted him at second hand. It was not in his Catalogue, but in 

 the resume of the first part of it given in the IrisJi Naturalist for March, that 

 I saw the distribution of Thecia bet 11 'ae set down (p. 59) as " Munster ; 

 Co. Galwa3%" I ought to have stated this when writing my note, the 

 only object of which was to make it clear that the butterfly is not con- 

 fined to those limits. 



C. B. Moffat, Ballyhyland, Co. Wexford. 



[We regret that we omitted the Co. Wexford locality for this butterfly 

 in our review of Mr. Kane's Catalogue. — Eds.] 



Coleoptera from Co. Dublin, — Owing to many causes my collec- 

 tingin Co. Dublin last season was not as successful as I should have wished, 

 most of my rambles being spoiled as far as entomolog}' was concerned, 

 by bad weather, and ever3thing considered, insects were in my 

 experience, not nearly so plentiful as in 1893. Amongst others the 

 following species were secured in addition to those given in the Ii-ish 

 Naturalist for September last. Very few of the Geodcphaga were met with, 

 the only novelty was Patrobius assi/fiilis, Chaud., a local highland form 

 of P. excavatus taken in a fir plantation, Tibradden, Dublin Mountains, 

 being a very critical species, Dr. Sharp kindly verified the identification ; 

 Dyschiriiis salinus appears to be not uncommon on the shore near Sutton, 

 whilst Homaliiimripariuni was in great numbers undersea-weed in the same 

 locality. Drotniiis nigriventiis, Portmarnock sand-hills, and in a decayed 

 tree-stump, Howth ; Taphria nivalis^ Bray river, near Bray. The old 

 quarries near Raheny that yielded Enochrus bicolor, etc., also produced 

 three beetles new to me, Lathrobium terminatiim (with yellow spots at apex 

 of elytra very obsolete, approaching var. iminaciilatti?)i, Fowler.) Qiiedius 

 inaiirornfns and KhampJu(s flavicornis, the two former were taken in 

 damp moss at edge of pools and are additions to the Dublin list. 

 Agabus Sttirmii, Hydroporus erythrocephalusyf'iih. other common water-beetles 

 were fished from the pools. The Portmarnock and Donabate districts 

 were tried on more than one occasion. The sand hills lying between the 

 latter locality and Malahide Point, are very productive ; here an un- 

 common burying-beetle Nrrodes littoralis with Choleva grandicollis and 

 other things were shaken out of a dead rabbit. Heliopathes gibbiis and 

 Otiorrhynchus ovatus occur, and what seems to be a new record for Ireland 

 in Apion onopordi, Kirby. At Portmarnock Orchestes salicis plentifully off 

 dwarf Salix growing on the sand-hills, Corticariafiiscula^ Apion seniculuni,A. 

 hiunidi, A. a:neiij)i, A. radiolus, A. nthiops and Sitones pxmcticollis ; some of 

 these are not as yet included in our Dublin list. Acalles ptinmdes in moss 

 from Bray Head. Baryfeithes sulcifrons, Howth. Hype^^a plantaginis, North 

 Bull ; also a ver}' puzzling Anisotoma which Dr. Sharp considers to be a 



