1924. Janson — Coleoptera at Lough Neagh and Newcastle. 71 



in plent3^ and Psylliodes picina are worthy of record. 

 Sweeping under fir trees produced about a dozen DryophiUis 

 piisilllis, a recent discovery in Ireland, and by beating 

 dead boughs of the same a specimen of Pityogenes hidentatus 

 was a capture of interest, as the only Irish record is a single 

 example taken by Mr. Johnson in his garden at Armagh 

 in 1892. Bolitochara ohliqua, Phloeocharis suhtilissima, 

 Epuraea pusilla, Rhizophagns depressa and i?. ^z"s/)ar occurred 

 sparingly under the bark of fallen firs, and Gyrophaena 

 affinis, only recorded from Galway in the Irish List, and 

 G. laevipennis were plentiful on fungi. By evening 

 sweeping, whenever the weather was suitable, I had the 

 good luck to secure a fine example of the very rare Colon 

 dentipes and a few C brunneum, Anisotoma ovalis and 

 A. calcarata, this being the first occasion that I have 

 succeeded in taking an^^ of these interesting insects in 

 Ireland. Of the more ordinary species that are not 

 considered to be of general distribution in Ireland and 

 are not recorded from Co. Antrim in the Irish List I met 

 with the following : Pterostichus anthracinus, Anacaena 

 limbata, Aleochara hrevipennis, Xantholinus longiventris, 

 Lathrohium qiiadratum, Scapkisoma agaricinum, Scymmts 

 suturalis, Cercus pedicularis, Ephistemus gyrinoides, Micro- 

 cara hohemanni, Telephorus pellucidus, Phyllodecta vitellinae, 

 Galarucella calmariensis, Phyllotreta exclamationis, Aphthona 

 lutescens, Dorytomus maculatus, Coeliodes ruhicundus and 

 Balaninus pyrrJwcerns. My collecting at Lough Neagh 

 was entirely confined to the Shane's Castle demesne as the 

 other country around Antrim, as far as I could see, was 

 all closely cultivated arable or grass land where very 

 little of interest was likely to be found. 



Leaving Antrim on June 29th, I proceeded south to 

 Newcastle, Co. Down, and although the weather continued 

 fine and warm it proved a very disappointing change of 

 ground and recalled to memory an observation of Mr. 

 Champion's^ that it was about the most unproductive 

 localit}^ he had ever visited. Two days were spent on 

 the seashore in Dundrum Bay and the adjacent sand 

 dunes and rabbit warren with most meagre results, 



1 Entom. M. Mag. xii, 1876, p. 82. 



