273 [December, 



SOME ADDITIONS TO THE BEETI^ES OF THE 



DUBININ DISTRICT. 



BY J. N. HAI^BERT. 



During the last five years a good deal of additional information 

 has been acquired concerning the beetle fauna of the Dublin 

 and Wicklow district. Quite a number of rare and unrecorded 

 species have been met with during this time, so that a 

 supplementary list is necessary, in order to bring our district- 

 records up to date. M}^ own field-work during this time has 

 been almost altogether restricted to a more thorough invefsti- 

 gation of a few localities, most of which have been favourite 

 hunting-grounds for collectors in former years. Notably the 

 marshes and sandhills on the north coast at Portmarnock, the 

 Dodder valley between Templeogue and the Dublin hills, and 

 the North Bull sands in Dublin Bay. I have also taken the 

 liberty to include in our district list some insects which have 

 occurred on the coast of Meath between Laytown and the 

 Boyne mouth, as the addition of this few miles of coast will 

 give us a claim to many interesting species. 



The working of the North Bull is due to a suggestion of 

 Mr. Praeger's that the insect fauna and flora of this isolated 

 sandbank should be carefully examined, in view of its 

 comparatively recent formation. As this undertaking will 

 require some time for its completion it seems desirable to 

 record some of the rarer species which have been found there 

 up to the present time. All of the species recorded from 

 Dundrum were taken a few years ago by Mr. F. H. Bullock, 

 many of these he has kindl> presented to the Dublin Museum. 



Over ninety per cent, of the following records are additions 

 to the Dublin district list, and of these about thirty species 

 have not been previously recorded from Ireland ; the latter 

 are indicated by an asterisk. I have again to thank Dr. D. 

 Sharp and Mr. G. C. Champion for much kind help in the 

 naming of critical species. In the matter of nomenclature 

 the " Catalogue of British Coleoptera " of Sharp and Fowler 

 (1893), has been followed. 

 Carabus glabratus, Payk.— Rare on the Dublin hills; found under 



moss at the roots of trees, Tibradden. 

 Dyschlrlus s^neus, Dej. — Portmarnock, occurs on the banks of 

 brackish ditches along with D. sa/mus, Schaum. 



