1907- Notes. 181 



ser., v., p. 785). These are the 011I3' Irish records I can discover. Pro- 

 visionally placed by Forbes amongst the Echinoderrnata, the animal has 

 since been removed to the Annelida, where it now stands in the group 

 Gephyrea, under the name Phascolion Strom bi (Montagu). 



N. COI,GAN. 



Sandycove. 



Corophium grossipes in East Ireland. 



A. curious crustacean which I found on the Murrough of Wicklow, 

 near Newcastle, in September last, has been identified for me by Mr. 

 A. R. Nichols as belonging to this burrowing species. Specimens from 

 two stations in West Ireland, Galway and Ballyshannon, are in the 

 Dublin Natural History Museum, but there seems to be only one record 

 for East Ireland, that given for Co. Dublin in Dr. J. R. Kinahan's Report 

 of the Dublin Bay Dredging Committee of the British Association pub- 

 lished in i86j. The precise locality is doubtful, but as the list includes 

 some species collected at Baldoyle, this crustacean was probably found 

 there, where mud flats offer a congenial habitat. At Newcastle the species 

 was abundant in very shallow salt pools with soft muddy bottom 

 situated on the inner or landward side of the railway. The pools were 

 not in permanent communication with the sea, though scarcely two feet 

 above the level of ordinary high water, and were probably replenished 

 only at spring tide. The enormously developed lower antennae of the 

 animal gave it an almost ludicrous top-heavy aspect as it issued from the 

 soft mud and swam briskl}- to and fro close to its surface. In A. O. 

 Walker's Revision of the Amphipoda of the Liverpool Marine District 

 (Trans. Liv. Biol.Soc, 1895), this species is recorded as occurring in im- 

 mense nnmbers in mud banks of the Dee estuary, left bare by the tide, 

 where hundreds of acres are closely perforated by its burrows. 



N. COI.GAN. 



Sandycove. 



Some Coleoptera from the North. 



During the past two summers I collected a number of beetles at 

 various places in the northern counties and now give a list of the more 

 interesting species. I found the sandhills at Portrush and Buncrana 

 very productive, but those at Portstewart did not repay the time spent 

 on them, as I took very few species of any note. 



At Portrush, Co. Antrim— *Dyschirius thoracicus, *Harpahts tardus, Amara 

 bifronsy A. tibialis, *Helophorus nubi/us, Aleochara obscurella, *Homa/ota sordida, 

 Xantholinus ochraceus, *Ot/iius tceviscu/us, Oxytehcs sculpturatus, Anisotoma 

 dubia, Choleva grandicollis, *Saprinus csneus, S. quadrislriatus, *Byn'husfasciatus 

 Aphodius fostens, A. scybaiarius, *Gastroidea polygoni, Spkaroderma cardia 

 Psylliodes affinis, Otiorrhynchus blandus, Philopedon getninatus. 



