12 6 ^ The Irish Naturalist. December, 



we found excellent accommodation at the hotel, but onl}^ 

 stopped three days, notwithstanding the attractions of a 

 beautiful garden which would have done credit to a 

 nobleman's mansion. The country around did not strike 

 us as especially interesting from an entomological point of 

 view, the extensive sandhills of Rossbeigh close by offering 

 perhaps the best hunting ground. These we visited en 

 the i6th and took some of the usual coastal species. On 

 the next day we toiled up the Windy Gap (which well 

 deserves its name), and found a few things under stones : 

 there was no sun, alas ! to entice beetles to run on the 

 road. On the morning of the i8th the proprietor of the 

 Glenbeigh Hotel drove us in his motor-car to Killarnev 

 where we spent the remaining few days of our stay at the 

 Erin Hotel, the owner of which, Mr. E. Bullock, is an 

 enthusiastic entomologist. Some pleasant hours were spent 

 with our host looking 'over his extensive collections of 

 insects of which some were of great local interest. The 

 three of us employed the greater part of Saturday, July 

 19, exploring Lord Kenmare's demesne for specimens 

 though with meagre results, but still some new additions 

 were made to our bag, notably the local Phyllohrctica 

 qiiadrimaculata, which Mr. Bullock first turned up here 

 some years ago. 



On the 2ist Mr. Janson left Killamey homeward bound, 

 but Mr. Bonaparte Wyse lingered on a couple of days 

 longer and continued collecting on his own. A visit was 

 paid next day to Derrycunihy some eight miles distant on 

 the Kenmare Road and not far from the famous waterfall ; 

 on the banks of a small stream, a few Donacia were 

 obtained by sweeping, including the large species D. 

 crassipes on Nymphaea. On the return journey the Wood 

 Ant (Formica rufa) was observed running on the road 

 near Tower Lodge and a few taken. 



Despite the bad weather experienced during the whole 

 of our trip, we succeeded in taking over three hundred 

 species of coleoptera and several of considerable interest. 

 We are able to bring forward five species new to Ireland 

 as follows : — 



I. Patrobus septentrionis, Dej. — A single specimen 

 taken by Mr. L. H. Bonaparte W^se under a stone on the 



