December, 1924. The Irish Naturalist. 125 



COLEOPTERA FROM SOUTH KERRY. 



BY OLIVER E. J ANSON, F.E.S., AND L. H. BONAPARTE WYSE. 



This year we spent our summer holiday, a whole month, 

 in Ireland, and devoted most of the time to collecting 

 insects, principally coleoptera. Leaving London on the 

 evening of June 23 we arrived at Killarney next day in 

 the early afternoon and drove thence by motor-car to the 

 Muckross Hotel, which we found under new management 

 and much improved since our last visit in 1919. A week 

 was spent here collecting, chiefly in the beautiful Muckross 

 demesne, but on one or two occasions we went further 

 afield, and on the 28th, notably, visited the western shore 

 of Lough Guitane, near the foot of Mangerton, where 

 some interesting captures were made. On July i we took 

 train to Killorglin and motored from there to Glencar 

 Hotel which we made our headquarters for a whole fortnight. 

 Unfortunately cold and wet weather dogged our steps and 

 rendered collecting difficult and discouraging. The very 

 few fine days, however, were made the most of, and one 

 of us took advantage of them to make the ascension of 

 Caher, Carrantuohill, and the rarely visited Benkeragh, 

 and met with the usual mountain beetles such as Cychrus 

 ro stratus, Carabus catenulatus, Nebria gyllenhali, Leistus 

 montanits, and Patrobus assimilis ; also Patrobtis septen- 

 trionis — an addition to the Irish fauna. In the woods 

 adjoining the hotel much work was done and some good 

 things taken, but beetles on the whole were decidedly 

 scarce and many common species entirely absent. We 

 had counted upon turning up some of the rarities recorded 

 in the Irish Naturalist^ by Messrs. Bouskell and Donisthorpe 

 more than twenty years ago, such as Carabus clathratus, 

 Lema septentrionis, Elater praeustus, and Hylecoetus 

 dermestoides, and for our failure in this we blamed the 

 inclement weather. 



On July 15 we left Glencar and drove on an " outside 

 car " over some fine, though somewhat desolate, mountain 

 country to Glenbeigh by way of Caragh Lake. At Glenbeigh 



iVol. xii, 1903. p. 59. 



