Notes. 103 



town of Ballyvaughan, and he gathered it also at Corry's station, 

 Glanquin, but failed to find it in its old habitat at Castle Taylor, Co. 

 Galway. Mr. Levinge describes the flowers as creamy white, rather than 

 pink. The latter part of the papers mentions stations for a number of 

 the rarer western species. 



Thb F1.0RA OF Co. Wexford. The July number of the Journal of 

 Botany contains a paper by Messrs. Barrett-Hamilton and Moffat, in 

 which they add a number of new localities to the lists of Wexford plants 

 already published in that Journal by Miss Glascott and themselves. 

 Five of those now published are additions to district IV. of " Cybeie 

 Hibernica " : — Aquilcgia vulgaris, Eanunculus penicillatus, Stachys betonica, 

 Utricularia minor, and Hymenophyllum tunhridgense. 



Rubus clianioemorus as an Irish Pi^anT. Mr. A. G. More, in the 

 Journal of Botany for June, summarizes the information available regard- 

 ing the unverified record of Prof. Murphy for this plant on the Sperrin 

 Mountains, and urges further search for it in its only recorded Irish 

 station. 



Z O O Iv O G Y. 



INSECTS, 



Coi^EOPTERA IN Co. Dubinin. Collecting in Glencullen on a warm day 

 about the middle of last month (June), I took examples of the following : 

 Bolitohius lunulatus, Stenus similis, S. Mmaculatus, Dianous coerulescens, Throscus 

 dermestoicles, Strongylus fcrvidus, Priohium castaneum, Mesites tardy i, and single' 

 specimens of the rare 3Iegatoma undata, and Abdera bifasciata. At Barna- 

 cullia a few da5^s later, I took CycJirus rostratus, Leistus rufcscens, Telephorus 

 bicolor, Malthinus punctatus, Puigonycha pallida, R. testacca, Granimopitera 

 tabacicolor, AlojyJnis triguttatus and Orchestcs rusei. The last named I have 

 since taken in greater numbers at Leixlip. — H. J. Cuthbert, Blackrock. 



CoivEOPTERA OF THE Hoi^YWOOD DISTRICT. In connection with the 

 Cultra Field Club, a small local organization, a prize was offered by the 

 Rev. W. F. Johnson for the best collection of beetles made by members, 

 in the neighbourhood of Holy^vood, during the months of February, 

 March, and April last. A few notes of the rarer species obtained by the 

 two competitors (ourselves), may be of interest as showing what may be 

 done by novices in a short period, in spite of an unfavourable spring and 

 the limited time at our disposal. All the species were obtained within 

 a four mile radius of Holywood ; the area thus enclosed offers a con- 

 siderable variety of habitat, including salt-marshes, w^oods, and strong 

 heaths. The determinations were all made by Mr. Johnson, to whom we 

 are much indebted for his painstaking kindness. 



The total number of species found was 165. Five of these are additions 

 to the Irish list, namely — Bradycellus distinctus, Stormount, under moss ; 

 Ha^palus consenteneus, Marino, under dead hen; Coelambus 2Jarallclogrammus, 

 People's Park, in open drain ; Alcochara grisea, Craigavad, among sea- 

 weed; Qucd'iiis jnincticollis, Holywood, under moss. Of the other species 

 the following are the more noteworthy: — Notiophilus substriatus, Holywood 

 and Clandeboye; Cydirus rostratus, Craigliauntlet and Clandeboye; Leistus 

 fulvibarbis Craigavad ; L. rufesccns, Clandeboye; Calatlms 2ncens, Holywood 

 and Clandeboye ; Fterostichus stremius, Holywood ; Amara fulva, Marino ; 

 A. acuminata, Craigavad; A. lunicullis, Cultra Wood; Bembidium manner - 

 heimi, Holywood and Stormount; B. rufesccns, Marino; Hydroporus lepidus, 

 Holywood ; H. pubcsccns, (inelanocephalus). People's Park ; Agabus guttatus, 

 Holywood; Sphaeridium marginatum, Cultra Wood; Cercyon littoralis, Cultra 

 and Craigavad; Alcochara bipunctata, Stormount; A. algarum, Craigavad. 

 (only other record near Dublin) ; A. nitida, Holywood ; Tachinus subter- 

 rancxs, Cairngever ; T. subterraneus, var. bicolor, Cultra Wood ; Megacronus 

 analis, Hol>^^ood and Craigavad ; Qucdius fulgidus, Holj^'ood ; Q. cinctus 

 (empressus), Holywood and Craigavad; Q. tristis, Cultra Wood; Ocj/pus 

 morio, Clandeboye and Stormount ; Fhilonthus splendcns, Holywood ; P. 



