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INSECTS. 



Bembidium paludosum, Panz, at Lough Neagh. 



On June 19th I made an expedition to Lough Neagh in the hope of 

 meeting with either Dysckirius obscurus or Silpha dispar. A kind friend 

 drove me from Fortadown to the lake-shore at Derryadd. Finding, 

 however, that the lake was too high for any hope of captures, I pushed 

 on to Ardmore. Here again the high level of the water proved a draw- 

 back, and I soon saw that there was no chance of either of the species I 

 had hoped to meet with. However there were , c ome beetles to be found 

 under debris, and accordingly I set to work, assisted by Mrs. Johnson 

 and my friend's little daughter. I soon noticed Bembidium bipufictaium 

 and along with it a Bembidium which was strange to my eye. This, on 

 examination, proved to be B. faludosum, Panz. I did not get many, for 

 there were but few insects stirring, but no doubt had the state of the 

 shore been more favourable I should have met with a considerable 

 number. I cannot find any recent record of its occurrence in Ireland. 

 Haliday gives it in his list among beetles captured near Belfast, and 

 Fowler adds Lough Neagh and Kerry It is possible that this beetle may 

 like others 011I3" be found in the perfect state at one period of the year, 

 and, consequently, unless searched for at that particular time, will not 

 be met with. 



W. F. Johnson. 



Poyntzpass. 



Noteworthy Lepidoptera. 



Readers of the Irish Naturalist may be on the look-out for certain 

 interesting species of Lepidoptera which usually occur after a warm 

 season, such as the present; more especially as it follows upon a pre- 

 ceding year of more than usual sun-heat. Already throughout the 

 summer the Humming-bird Hawk-moth (Macroglossa stellatarum) has been 

 exceedingly numerous in our gardens, and larvae of the great Death's- 

 head Moth {Acherontia atropos), have been reported to me by Mr. W. B. 

 Thoruhill, of Castle-Bellingham, feeding on the common Euonymus 

 or Spindle-tree. They should be looked for in the potato fields, 

 and an outlook should be kept for their large black pupae at 

 potato-digging. We may also expect an immigration of the beautiful 

 "orange-coloured butterfly Colias edusa in the United Kingdom ; and 

 probably other Hawk-moths beside those alluded to above will be 

 reported as the autumn proceeds— sucTi as DcHephila gain, D. Ih-ornica, 

 and Sphinx convolvuli, flying about Honeysuckle and other flowers as 

 dusk approaches. 



Wm. Fr as. dk V. Kank. 



Drumreaske, Monaghan. 



[Mr. Kane will notice that Colias cdusa has been observed both in the 

 north and south of Ireland (p. 20S). We have received caterpillars of 

 Acherontia alropos from Cos. Kildare, Wexford, and Waterford.— Kns.] 



