f 9°7- Johnson. — Coleoptera collected during 1906. 203 



At Tanderagee, in June, I took several Bembldhun tlblale, 

 Duft., on the banks of the Cusher, and, by sweeping, Phylloblus 

 calcaratus. F. 



In the same month I took by sweeping in the evening on 

 the bank of the canal, near Poyntzpass, Pelophila borealls, 

 Payk., a single specimen, which must have run up the 

 herbage ; Donacla saglttarlce, F, and Tehnatophilus cartels, 01. 

 A few days later I took a couple of Blethisa imtltlpunctata, L-, 

 on the shore of Lough Shark in Co. Down, and along with it 

 Philoiithus dlmldlatus, Steph. 



At the end of July I spent a day at Newcastle, Co. Down, 

 and hunted over the sandhills. I did not get very many 

 beetles, and was disappointed at not meeting with Dyschirius 

 or Bledius, most probably because I did not hit on their par- 

 ticular habitat. Chysomela hypericin Forst., was plentiful on 

 Hypericum, and I got a number of larvae of Clonus /lortnlanus, 

 Marsh., on Scropularla nodosa, from which I successfully 

 reared a number of the beetles. Besides, I need only mention 

 Otio7?'hynchus wuscorum, Bris., and the large white variety of 

 Phllopedon gemlnahis, F. ; this is, as far as I know, the most 

 southerly locality yet recorded for this form. 



On August 8th I captured a single specimen of Anthero- 

 phagus 7ilgricoinls, F., in my garden. As I previously met 

 with A. palle?is, Gyll., 1 in a field not a hundred yards from 

 where I captured this beetle, it seems probable that further 

 search among nests of Bombus might very likely produce a 

 number of both species. On the same date I took Pterostlchus 

 ver?ialls, Gyll., in one of my fields. 



On the whole, I did not find 1906 a good year for beetles, 

 though this ma)- have been my fault rather than that of the 

 beetles, for I was very unfortunate in my distant expeditions. 

 I went all the way to Lough Neagh at Ardmore to get 

 Be?nbldlum arge?iteolu?n, and not only did I not find a single 

 specimen of it, but hardly a beetle at all. 



Poyntzpass, Feb. 12. 1907. 



1 frisk Naturalist, xii., p. 109. 



