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6. Otiovrhynchus povcatus, Hbst. This interesting addition 

 to the British Hst, which I have already pubKshed elsewhere/ 

 came as a great surprise. I found one very bedraggled 

 specimen in a shower of rain on the hah steps on June 2, 

 and 12 more on the bog on the loth, where they were 

 shaken out of moss in a ver}^ restricted area. 



In addition I may mention the following captures : 

 Pterosfickus versicolor, Stm., the second black specimen 

 in this locality ; Megarthrus denticollis, Beck,, in moss on 

 Chamberlaynestown bog ; Olophrmn fuscum, Gr., one in 

 a swamp ; Stemis lustrator, Er., a few with the preceding ; 

 Lathrohium qiiadratiim, Pk., one at the edge of a pond ; 

 Lamprimis saginatus, Gr., one on Chamberlaynestown bog, 

 and two on the home bog out of moss in company with a 

 species of Myrmica ; Encephahis complicans, West., by 

 sweeping in a ditch ; Bolitochara ohliqua, Er., under pine- 

 bark ; Ilyohates nigricollis, Pk., one specimen in moss on 

 the bog ; Euplectus ambiguus, Reich., in sedge refuse ; 

 Neuraphes angulatus, MuelL, two specimens in moss ; Colon 

 bnmneum, Lat., one in sedge refuse ; Agathidiiim margi- 

 nahim, Stm., two with the preceding ; Orthopenis atomus 

 Gyll., at the sap of a wounded oak ; Cercus pedicidariiis , 

 common on reeds, etc. ; Epuraea obsoleta, ¥., E. longida, 

 Er., E.florea, Er., on a w^ounded oak, the former exceeding^ 

 common ; Ips iv-punctata, Hbst., this species, w^hich I 

 added to the Irish list a few years ago on the strength of 

 one specimen from the bog wood,^ was not uncommon 

 under the bark of a pine stump in the same place ; 

 Pityophagus ferrugineus, F., five under the bark of a felled 

 pine ; Atomaria analis, Er., in moss ; Hyperaspis rep- 

 pensis, Hbst., one swept on the bog ; Sericosomus brunnetis, 

 L., together with the var. fugax, F., w^hich is the female 

 of this species, very sparingly by beating young fir trees in 

 the bog wood ; Elater pomonim, Hbst., equally common 

 under the bark of birch and of pine stumps on the bog, 

 also an occasional specimen on the wing and b}^ general 

 sweeping, etc. ; Rhinosimus ruficollis, L., b}/ sweeping ; 



'^Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, lii., 1916, p. 20?.. 

 ^ Irish Naturalist, xxiii., 1914, P- 7'- 



