2i6 The Irish Nahiralist. [September, 



Balaninus saiicivorus. Rhcpalomesitcs tardyi, this very interesting weevil 

 occurs about Kenmare in the decaying stumps of various trees, and 

 Mr. Hardy got a few near Killarney, where it has long been known to 

 abound ; the majority of the allied species have a very restricted range in 

 south-western Europe and iu the Atlantic Islands ; J\. tardyi is locally 

 abundant all over Ireland, Mr. C. W. Buckle has taken it recently in 

 great number in the north of Donegal. 



Science and Art Museum, Dublin. 



HEMIPTERA. 



(Collected for the R.I. A. Fauna and Flora Committee), 



BY J. N. HALBERT. 



Our knowledge of the Irish "plant-bugs" is as 3-et very scanty, 

 collectors as a rule preferring to devote their time to the more popular 

 moths and beetles. Consequently our work at Kenmare was particularly 

 useful in extending the known range of many of these interesting insects 

 into the south-west. The Hemiptera are most numerous in the late 

 summer and autumn, so that when we were at Kenmare numbers of 

 species were in the preparatory stages, and it will be noticed that a few 

 of the best species have had to be inserted in the following list on the 

 strength of the occurrence of immature specimens, but this has only 

 been done in cases where there could be no doubt as to their identit}-. 



At least three out of the seventy species in the following list are now 

 recorded as Irish for the first time, i.e.^ Coreus denticulatus. Scop., Salda 

 Muelleri, Gmel. , and Orthoiylus chloroptej-tis, Kb. The Saida is a very 

 interesting addition. Mr. Cuthbert captured two specimens on Cromaglan 

 Mountain. I met with a specimen on a boggy heath near the Dublin 

 Mountains in the summer of 1893, when this was considered, in common 

 with the known British examples, to be Salda morio, Lett., until Mr. E. 

 Saunders pointed out the differences {E.M.M., Oct. 1S95). Salda Muelleri 

 is attached apparently, though not exclusively, to high districts in 

 Britain, and in Europe the distribution, according to Dr. Puton, is 

 Scandinavia, Finland, and France. The arrangement followed, is that 

 of Mr. Saunders' " Catalogue of British Hemiptera." 



PENTATOMID-^. — Eurygaster maura, several immature examples swept 

 from amongst long grass near Kenmare ; Mr. Cuthbert has taken it on 

 the Cork coast, but I know of no other locality for this local species in 

 Ireland. Pentaioma baccarum, abundant. P. prasina, evidently common, but 

 mostly immature at the time of our visit. Tropicoris rufipes. Picro7nerus bidens. 

 Podisus luridus, immature, swept off Birch ; I had previously taken this 

 species in Clare and at Clonbrock ; Mr. Dillon finds the imago at the 

 latter place, in late autumn. Acanthosorna hccmorrhoidale^ swept off Birch. 



