1900.] Notes. 291 



At Groomsport, Co. Down — Amara fulva, Dej., A. coiisularis, Duft., 

 Ccelambus iDipressopunctaiiis , Sch. {j>icipes, F.) 



Considering that Mr. Patterson makes no pretension to being an 

 entomologist, I think he is much to be congratulated on the success that 

 has attended his collecting; there are not man}- who would so unselfishly 

 give their time and trouble to help others in a pursuit of which they 

 themselves are practically ignorant. Mr. Patterson generously gives all 

 his captures to me, and as he has not studied the Coleoptera he is 

 deprived of that exquisite delight which attends the capture of a " good 

 thing." 



Mr. S. A. Stewart sent me a fine specimen oi Acanthocintis (tdih's, L., male, 

 which was taken in the end of August by a workman on the Queen's 

 Island, Belfast ; the insect probably emerged from timber in the shipyard ; 

 w^hoever the captor was, he deserves commendation for capturing the 

 beetle without injuring its immensely long antennae. 



My friend, W. A. Hamilton, Esq., of Coxtown, Co. Donegal, sent me, 

 on August 10, a fine specimen of Carabtcs glabratiis, Payk., which he had 

 captured on a mountain about three miles from Coxtown. In a letter 

 dated vSeptember 12 the same gentleman writes that he has during the 

 season seen six Vanessa io, L- — five at Coxtown and one at Coolmore — so 

 that the butterfly is evidently pretty well established in that locality. He 

 also sent me a specimen of the pretty H3'menopteron, Chrysis ignita, and 

 from a description given, Szrex gigas has turned up at Coxtown, causing 

 an alarm of " hornets " to be raised. 



From another part of Donegal, viz., Narin, by the kindness of Colonel 

 W. J. Alexander, of Acton House, Poyntzpass, I received specimens of 

 Thecla nibi, L., Zygcena lojiicerce, Esp., Eiithenionia riissula, I-/., Centra vinnla' 

 Iv., and Anarta myrtilli^ L. 



Of captures made here I have but few to record : — a few days ago I took 

 Bembidium bruxellense, Wesm., in my potato field crawling about among 

 the lumps of earth ; in July I took Herminia grisealis^ Hb., Plusia pulchrjna. 

 Haw., Gonoptera libatrix, L., Cidaria pyraleata^ L., which is much more like 

 forms from York than those from Donegal, and Enrrhypara tirticata, L/, 

 On August loth, Heliophobus popularise Fab., flew into my dining- 

 room and was captured. On September 5 I made a capture which 

 much pleased me. I was returning from paying a visit in Co. Down, and 

 was walking along a by-road in the townland of Loughadian not very far 

 from Poyntzpass, when a Painted Lady {Vanessa cardui, L.) settled on the 

 road just in front of me. 1 had no net, so made at the butterfly with my 

 hat ; my first attempt was a failure, but the butterfly settled again on the 

 road, and using greater caution I got my hat over it, and as I had a box 

 in my pocket soon had it safe. It was a perfectly fresh specimen, the 

 result no doubt of eggs laid in the early summer by some immigrant. 

 Va?iessa atalanla, L., was remarkably plentiful this autunm, and I found 

 one to-day (October 15) on my avenue where it had evidently dropped 

 and been trodden on. I was in Armagh on October 11, and was 

 informed by a man that a shopkeeper in the town had captured a 

 >vonderful " bat.'' I knew from experience that this meant a large moth- 



