240 The I? ish Naturalist. November, 



Abnormal Coleoptera. 



Ill March last I took in moss from a wood near here anexample of 

 Phi/onfhus varim which had a supplementary joint projecting sideways 

 from the second joint of its left hind tarsus. 



Among some beetles sent to me by Mr. R. Welch, from Tory Island 

 was a specimen of Oiy/>/ts olens, which had two supplemental joints pro- 

 jecting from the third joint of its right antenna. There are signs that 

 there may have been one or two additional joints to this attempt at a 

 third antenna. 



Canon Fowler ( £"///. Mo. Mag., xxii., p. 138), and Rev. Theodore Wood 

 ^Ent. Mo. Mag., xxiv., p. 16), record abnormal tarsi in specimens of Pelophila 

 borealis which I had sent them, but in each of these cases the tarsi were 

 contracted, and in one case joints were missing, while in those men- 

 tioned above we have additional joints growing out of the ordinary ones^ 



W. V . Johnson. 



Poyntzpass. . 



Hydroecia crinanensis in Ireland. 



I have been fortunate enough to take the new species Hydnxcia critia- 



nensis during August this year near Londonderry. The specimens 



have all been examined by Mr. F. N. Pierce, so there can be no doubt of 



their identity. 



H. R. SwEHTlNG. 



Sefton Park, Liverpool. 



Kerry Mollusca. 



"^ho. /oiirnil 0/ Coiiiho/o^y for July contains an article by J. R. le B. 

 Tomlin, giving the results of a week's collecting in April, 1909, of land 

 and fresh-water Mollusca at Cloghane, Co. Kerry. 



The Distribution of Bythinia Leachii in Ireland. 

 vSince Mr. Welch first recorded^ this shell as living in Ireland, its 

 range over the central plain has proved to be considerably wider than 

 was known at that time. In the Grand Canal it had then been traced 

 from Dublin through the counties of Dublin and Kildare, Queen's and 

 King's Counties, to Shannon Harbour. iMr. R. A. Phillips has since 

 taken it in the part of this canal west of the Shannon at Balliuasloe in 

 S. E. Galway, and has also proved it to occur in the southern branch of 

 the same canal as far south as Tinnahinch in county Carlow, and in the 

 River Barrow at Tinnahinch and Graiguamanagh, in counties Carlow 

 and Kilkenny respectively. In the Royal Canal it is abundant right in 

 the heart of Dublin, also at Leixlip and at Maynooth. Westward of this 

 it is as yet unknown in this waterway, and its absence at MuUiugar 

 rather surprised me, I have twice searched for it in the neighbourhood 

 of this town, and in the same canal at Ballymahou in county Longford, 

 but on each of these three occasions I looked for it in vain. 



A. W. Stei^fox* ; 

 Belfast. 



^ Jrish Nat., xviii., p. I, 1908. 



