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So ends the simple record of a very enjoyable time spent in 

 Ireland, which from the pleasant aid rendered, the perfect 

 weather, and the interesting nature of the geolog3 r and scenery, 

 will not readily be effaced from the memory. 



INSECTS COLLECTED BY THE ROYAL IRISH 

 ACADEMY FLORA AND FAUNA COMMITTEE, 



1893. 



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



GEORGE H. CARPENTER, B.SC. 



COLEOPTERA. 



[Continued from page 124.) 



PSELAPHIDJE. 

 Bryaxis fossulata, Reich.— Ballyhaise. 



SILPHID/E. 



Anisotoma pu net u lata, Gyll.— Coolmore. Only other Irish 

 locality is Portmarnock. 



A. calcarata, Er. — Coolmore. 



Necrophorus humator, F.— Coolmore, in dead gulls. 



N. ruspator, Er.— Coolmore, in dead rat. 



Necrodes Iittoralis, h. — Coolmore, in dead gulls. Only other 

 Irish localities are Armagh and Dublin. 



Silpha rugosa, L. — Coolmore, common in carrion. 



S. atrata, L.var. subrotundata, Steph. — Coolmore. Very common 

 about Cavan, the black form at Oak Wood, Ballyhaise. Berehaven. 

 Killarney (brown form). 



HISTERIDJE. 



Onthophilus striatus, F. — Slieve Glah, by sweeping in a marshy 

 spot. 



COCCI NELLIDJE. 



Adalia obliterata, L,.— Farnham. 



Cocci nel la x- punctata, L,. — Coolmore. 



C. hieroglyphica, L. — Coolmore. Berehaven. Hitherto recorded 

 only from Churchill, County Armagh, and Waterford. 



C. xi-punctata, L,. — Coolmore, common in the sandhills. 

 C. vii-punctata, L. — Berehaven. Cavan. 

 Halyzla xviii-guttata, L. — Ballyhaise. 



H. conglobata, L.— Oak Wood, Ballyhaise. Haliday records it 

 from near Belfast, and Fowler from " the south of Ireland." 

 H. xxii-punctata, L. — Common about Cavan. 

 Coccidula rufa, Herbst. — Coolmore. Dundalk. Ballyhaise. 



