1898. j HAi^BHRT.—Beefles of Mote Park, &c. 93 



Cychramus luteuSf F. (var. fungicola, Heer.) — Clonbrock. This 

 variety does not appear to have beeu previously recorded, though 

 it has been taken at Rostrevor by Dr. Scharff, and by myself at 

 Woodenbridge. It is given specific rank in Fowler's " British 

 Coleoptera." 

 Telmatophllus carlcts, 01.— By sweeping in marshy places. 

 Slnodendron cyllndrlcum, L.— This conspicuous insect infests 



some old Oaks at Mote Park, and I also found it on willow. 

 Priotoum castaneum, F. — Another wood-boring species, occurs in 



great numbers in the same Oaks. 

 Melolontha vulg^arls, F. (Cockchafer).— E^vidently common ; it 



simply swarmed about the Oaks at dusk. 

 •Scrlcosomus brunneus, L.— Swept off Birch. Not recorded as an 

 Irish species, though there is a specimen in the Museum collection 

 taken at Coolmore, Co. Donegal, by the Rev. W. F. Johnson. 

 Corymbltes tesscllatus, F.— Frequent on heaths. 

 *CampyIus linearis, L-— Taken by sweeping near willows at Mount 

 Talbot. I found the remains of this species in decayed fir stumps in 

 Cratloe Wood, Co. Clare. 

 *Cls ainl, Gyll.— Taken in a BoJetus, verified by Mr. Champion. 

 C. nltlduSv Herbst.— Common in fungi. 



Aromla moschata, L. (Musk-beetle). — Taken on a decaying willow 

 in a field near the Sheep-pool Bog at Clonbrock. This record 

 helps to fill up the gap in the Irish range of this fine insect, as it 

 has only been taken in the Killarney and Glengariff districts and 

 near Belfast. It should be searched for about old willows in early 

 summer. 

 *Hylotrupes bajulus* L. — Cloonca Wood, one specimen. Local in 

 the South of England, where it is usually found in pine and fir 

 stumps. 

 Rhaglum Inquisitor, F. — Cloonca Wood. Mr. W. F. de V. Kane has 

 met with this species in many localities in the west. But it does not 

 seem to have been observed so far in the province of Leinster. 

 R, Indagator, Gyll. — Clonbrock. This is the second occurrence of 

 this rare longicorn in Ireland. Mr. R. Standen took a specimen on 

 the coast of Meath, near Laytown {Irish Naturalist, 1894, p. 181), but 

 this specimen had in all probability emerged from some split logs 

 that were lying in the vicinity, and which may have been imported. 

 But there is no doubt that the species finds a suitable habitat in the 

 woods of Co. Galway. l/ocally common in many Scotch localities, 

 but extremely rare in England. 

 *Pachyta collarls, L. — Cloonca Wood. 



*Lcptura scutellata, F.— Clonbrock, one specimen on the Sheep- 

 pool Bog. Rare in the South of England, where it seems to occur in 

 some numbers in the New Forest. 

 *L. fulva, De G.— Clonbrock. 



•L. Ilvlda, F.— Mote Park, on flowers in woods. Both this and the 

 preceding species are somewhat widely distributed in the South of 

 England, but they have not been recorded from north of the mid- 

 lands. 



