*22 The Irish Naturalist. 



INSECTS COLLECTED BY THE ROYAL IRISH 

 ACADEMY FLORA AND FAUNA COMMITTEE, 



1893. 



BY REV. W. F. JOHNSON, M.A., F.E.S., J. N. HAI,BERT, AND 



GEORGE H. CARPENTER, B.SC. 



COLEOPTERA. 



(Continued from page 105.) 

 HYDROPHILIDJE. 



Hydroblus fusclpes, L.— Coolmore. 



Anacaena globulus, Payk.— Lough Oughter, in drains. Slieve Glah, 

 in a pool. 



Philhydrus melanocephalus, 01.— In a pool on Slieve Glah. 



P. coarctatus, Gredt.— Coolmore. 



Laccobius minutus, L.— Coolmore. 



LI m neb His truncatellus, Thorns. -Coolmore. 



Helophorus nubllus, F.— Coolmore. 



H. aquaticus, L.— Berehaven. 



H. brcvipalpis, Bedel.— Coolmore. Slieve Glah, in a pool. 



Cyclonotum orbiculare, F.— Coolmore. 



Sphaeridlum scarabaeoides, F. — Coolmore. Ballyhaise. 



Cercyon Iittoralls, Gyll.— Coolmore. Greenore. 



C. haemorrhoidalis, Herbst.— Coolmore. Carlingford. 



C. flavipes, F.— Coolmore. 



C. melanocephalus, L.— Coolmore. 



C. quisquilius, L. — Coolmore. 



C. analls, Payk.— Coolmore. 



IYIegasternum boletophagum, Marsh. — Coolmore. 



STAPHYLINID^E, 



*AIeochara lata, Grav. — Coolmore, in dead bird. This is a southern 

 species in England ; its occurrence in Co. Donegal is therefore remark- 

 able. 



A. cunlculorum, Kr. — Coolmore. 



A. lanuginosa, Grav. — Coolmore. 



A. nicest a, Grav.- -Coolmore. 



A. gr i sea, Kr. — Coolmore. 



Oxypoda opaca, Grav. — Coolmore. 



Astllbus canaliculatus, F.— Coolmore. 



Homalota viclna, Steph. — Coolmore. 



H. atramentaria, Gyll.— Coolmore. 

 *H. Iongicornls, Grav. — Coolmore. 



Tachyusa atra, Grav.— Coolmore. 



Conosoma livid urn, Er.— Near Cavan, common. 



Tachyporus obtusus, L.— Ballyhaise. 

 var. nitidicollls, Step.— Cavan, very common. 



T. chrysomellnus, L.— Coolmore. Dundalk. Cavan. 



T. humerosus, Er.— Cavan. 

 *T. tersus, Er.— Ballyhaise. 



T. hypnorum, P.— Coolmore. Cavan. 



Tachlnus ruflpes, L. -Coolmore. Fathom. 



T. marglnellus, F.— Ballyhaise. 



