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disastrous failure. The ascent of Mangerton was attempted 

 and abandoned, and in fact the only possible collecting was 

 confined to the sifting of moss, dead leaves, etc., in the woods 

 about Tore Mountain during lucid intervals between hail- 

 and rain-showers. Here it was interesting to the English 

 collector to find that the Liosoma shaken from the moss was 

 not the common L. ovattdum, Clair., but (in England) the very 

 much rarer L. oblo7igulum, Boh. Under the bark of a fallen 

 spruce a specimen of Melaiiotus rufipes, Herbst. was dis- 

 covered, of that large and very elongate form which occurs in 

 Scotland, and stands in many British collections as M. 

 castanipes, Payk. This species probably passes the winter in 

 the imaginal state, hybernating in its pupal cell, since the 

 writer has found specimens in rotten wood in November, 

 ev^idently from their immature colouration only just emerged 

 from pupoe, and these individuals would, no doubt, appear in 

 the open during the following May and June. 



Besides numbers of common Geodephaga, Staphylinidae, &c., 

 all generally abundant in Ireland, the moss, &c., yielded a few 

 possibly less abundant species, such as Chloenius 7iigricor7iis 

 F., Bradycelhis disti7ictus^ Dej., Mycetoporus clavico7'7iis, Steph., 

 Lathrobiu7n pimctaUi77i^ 7j^\X., Stilicus si77iilis, Ei*., Lesteva 

 pubeseejis, Maun , Ste7uis Guy7iei}ieyi^ Duv., Ste7ius provides var. 

 Rogers Kr., and Cryptohyp7ius iv.-gzittatus, I^ap. 



In moss on tree-trunks but not in that on the ground the 

 Irish form of Tachyporus obtiistis^ L, — the var. 7iitidicollis, Steph. 

 —was occasional ; for the rest all that could be done was to 

 deplore in suitable terms atmOvSpheric conditions so inimical 

 to the revelation of beetle life, for to the writer it seemed that 

 a locality more varied in character and more likely to be 

 prolific in its coleopterous fauna than that which encircles 

 these famous lakes, it would be difficult to find in Ireland. 



It may be of interest to add to these fragmentary notes — 

 since Castlebar Lough (Mayo) appears to have been so far 

 unexplored by the coleopterist — that on a visit there of a few 

 hours the following species were taken by the lough side : — 

 Pa7iage7is cruX'7}iajor, I,., Aleochara br€vipe7i7iis, Grav., Ste7uis 

 ater^ Maun., Ho7)ialota aqtcatica, Thoms, and very abundantly 

 Ho7}ialota laticollis^ Steph., besides commoner species. 



South Norwood, Surrey. 



