1 68 The Irish Naturalist. [July, 



R. glama, VilL— In hedge of field, Saiutfield Vicarage, Aug., 1895; 

 demesne, Saintfield, Aug., 1896; Aughnadarragh, Aug., 1894, all in Co. 

 Down. 



In a paper by M. Crepiu ou the geographical distribution of A', stylosa, 

 Desv. (1S92), he states that he has seen a specimen of this rose from 

 Newcastle, Co. Tipperary, collected by M. Nicholson. This adds a third 

 to the two previously recorded localities for this rare Irish species. 

 I note it here as it might be overlooked. 



C. H. Waddei<I.. 



Saintfield. 



ZOOLOGY. 

 WORMS. 



Irish Annelids. 



I am anxious, now that the collecting season has come again, to 

 complete my researches among Irish Annelids. I should be specially 

 grateful if naturalists would send specimens of the smaller kinds found 

 in ponds, ditches, gutters, sew^age, manure heaj)S, water-weeds, backwash 

 refuse by lakes, ponds, rivers and estuaries, and other localities. lyiving 

 material sent in small boxes or tubes shall have immediate attention. 



Hii^DERic Friend. 

 Ocker Hill, Tipton, vStaffs. 



INSECTS. 



Entomolog^ical Notes from Poyntzpass, &c. 



Vatiessa urluce was as usual the first butterfly to appear on the wing. I 

 noticed a specimen flying on March 20th ; and on the 22nd of the same 

 month I observed Bonibus tcrrcstrisy L,., flying about my garden. On April 

 15th, several Picris rapa appeared on the wing, and on the 19th Parar^e 

 c^cria was flying in its usual haunt, along a big laurel hedge. Mr. J. H. 

 Johnston's record of Parargc mcgixra on INIarch 20th {^Irish Naturalist, 

 vii. p. 149) is remarkable. Mr. Barrett (British L,epidoptera, vol. i. ) 

 notes the earliest appearance known to him as April 25th, and says 

 nothing about the species hybernating. Evidently therefore Mr. 

 Johnston's specimens were an early emergence brought on by the period 

 of fine weather which occurred about March 20th. On the same day as 

 I noticed P. egcriay I saw a number oi Andiciia cineraria at a bank on the 

 edge of a small lake near here. On April 21st I took in my own fields a 

 few colcoptcra, the only noteworthy species being Ptcroslichus jiij^rita, 

 Hister ncglcctusy Alophiis iriguttalus^ and JSlcc iii 11 s py raster. A few days after- 

 wards I was walking through a field belonging to Colonel Alexander 

 when I noticed a small reddish beetle sitting on the end of a blade of 

 grass. I had no net with me, and tried to catch it with my hand, but it 

 eluded me and fell to the ground and no amount of searching among the 



