1897.] Notes, 87 



Beetles, etc., from Ardmore, Co. Waterford. 



The following is a list of Coleoptera and Hemiptera-Heteroptera 

 taken at Ardmore, Co. Waterford, close to the Blackwater estuary, in the 

 month of September, 1896. At the time I made a few notes, added 

 below. I have to thank Mr. Halbert for many of the determinations. 



CoiyEOPTERA. — Leistus fidvibarbis^ Dromiiis nig7-iventris , Aleochara algaruniy 

 Phz'lonthus bimaadatns, F.Jimetarius, P. scybalarius, Xantholinus glabralus, X. 

 linearis, Simius diversus, Stilicus rujipes, S. affim's, Ocyptis compressiis, 0. inoria, 

 Lathrobium vndtipunctum, Aphodiiis pimciato-sidcatus, A. C07itai7nnattis, Out ho- 

 phagus fracticornis, Geotrupes typhcvus, Timarcha violaceo-nigra, Chrysoniela 

 staphylea, C. polda, GaleniceUa tenella^ Meloe proscarabcetis, Apion miniatum, 

 Khynchites gertnanictis, Otiorrhynchiis monticola, 0. scabrosics, 0. rugifrons, 0, 

 ligneus, Sciaphdzts ?nuricatus, Strophosonms coryli. 



HEmipTERA-HeJTEROPTERA. — Pentatoma baccarum, Piezodorus Iduratus, 

 Syroniastes ma>ginaiuSf Nabis lativentris, Rhopalotomus aier. 



Nearly all the species taken are common and generally distributed, 

 but some occurred in rather an unusual habitat. Aleochara algarum^ Fauv., 

 usually found on seaweed above high water mark, was abundant on the 

 cliffs at Ardmore Head and Ardoginna. Timarcha violaceo-nigra, De G., a 

 distinctively southern insect, occurred in numbers at one spot, at Glen- 

 corran, where a small stream has cut a passage through the cliffs. Meloe 

 proscarabaus, L., not often captured in the perfect form in the autumn, 

 occurred in the woods at Paulsworth, and I picked up Geohtipes typhatis, 

 L., on the shore near the same place. 



As to the Hemiptera I have nothing to note except that Syroniastes 

 mar^inatiiSy L-, another southern insect, was abundant on Ling at 

 Crobally, 



H. Gore Cuthbert, 



MOLLUSC A. 

 MoIIusca of Baiiycastle District. 



If Mr. Standen and his friends were able to examine the South-west of 

 Ireland as thoroughly as they have done the surroundings of Baiiycastle, 

 their efforts would probably be rewarded by the discovery of some 

 species new to the British Fauna. The "pockets" described by Mr. 

 Standen in last month's Lrish Naturalist, would have been passed over by 

 an ordinary observer, and we should be grateful to him for the extreme 

 care with which he has pursued his investigations in Ireland. We hope 

 he will continue them this year. 



I quite agree with Mr. Standen's remark about Helix costata. Since 

 writing my account of the Irish L. & F. MoUusca, I have also come to the 

 conclusion that H. costata and pidchella should be regarded as two distinct 

 species and oot as varieties of one another. 



R. F. SCHARFF. 



