I9IO. Notes, 139 



Grain Beetles at Belfast. 



On April 25 Mr. W. H. Pattersou, M,R I A., sent me a niiiiiber of small 

 beetles which he informed me had been taken in a shed at the docks, 

 Belfast. There was in the shed a great pile of sacks of maize, and on 

 the outside of these sacks were thousands of these little insects, most of 

 them either dead or in a torpid state. On examination the beetles sent 

 proved to belong to three species. One was the heteromeron, Triboliitm 

 ferrugineuin, F. ; the other two were weevils, Calandra granaria, L., and 

 C. oryza, \,. The first-named was the least abundant and the last named 

 the most so in the specimens sent to me. All these species are more or 

 less cosmopolitan, but curiously enough we have very few records in 

 our Irish List. The records are as follows: — Triboluun ferrugineiim — 

 Dublin, taken by Mr. Tardy and recorded by Mr. Hogan in the Zoologist, 

 1854. Calandria granaria — Dublin, in corn stores, recorded by Mr. Hogan 

 in the Zoologist 1854 ; Down, near Belfast, recorded by Mr. Haliday in 

 MS. list published by the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club in the Proceedings, 

 1885. C. oryzce — Dublin, in corn stores, Mr. Hogan, Zoologist, 1854 ; 

 Custom-house Wall, Haliday MS. That there are not other more recent 

 records is simply because no one has looked for the beetles in their 

 usual haunts. It is probable that a search among the merchandise 

 which comes to the port of Belfast from so many different countries 

 would reveal the presence of many interesting insects. 



W. F. Johnson. 



Poyntzpass. 



Dasypolia templi in Dublin. 



I caught a female of this moth at a lamp in Kingsbridge station on 

 October 1st, 1906. I believe this to be an unrecorded locality for this 

 scarce species. 



Norman K. Stephkns. 



Rath mines. 



Irish Birds. 



In the Zoologist for March, R. Warren writes on Black-tailed God wits in 

 Cork Harbour, and in British Birds for March J. W. H. Seppings has a 

 note on the same subject. In the same number of British Birds W. J. 

 Williams records a Snowy Owl shot at Belmullet on January 4, two 

 Greenland Falcons shot on Tory Island in December, one shot and 

 another seen on Achill in November, one shot at Belmullet in January 

 one at Greystones in January, and one at Tralee in February ; a Spoon- 

 bill shot at Dingle in December; a hybrid Mallard x Gadwall shot at 

 Kells in February ; a Corncrake shot at Malahide in January and 

 several Little Auks picked up exhausted in Queen's County, Sligo, Tip- 

 perary, Mayo, and Galway. In the same issue R. Hamilton Hunter 

 writes on the breeding-habits of the Siskin in Ireland. In the April 

 number of British Birds, Major B. R. Horsbrugh records two Crossbills 

 from Newbridge, 



