370 The Irish Naturalist. December, 



imported with shipping ; Cercyondepressus,* C. quisquilius* near Pontoon. — 

 Tachimts marginellus* near Westport. — T. lalicollis* in fungi, Lord Sligo's 

 demesne, Westport. — Leislotrophus muriuus* one specimen in stercore 

 humano, near Keel, Achill. — Philonthus splena'ens* common near Westport. 

 one specimen on Achill. — P. intermedins, Westport and Achill. — Xantho- 

 linns glabratus* very common on Achill, also near Westport. — X. ochraceus* 

 Murrisk. — Oxytclcs scnlptnratus ;* 0. coniplanalus,* Westport. Histcr neg- 

 lect us * H. carbonarius* single specimens of each near Westport.— Epurcca 

 deleter,* in fungi, Lord Sligo's demesne, Westport. — Byrrhus fasciatus, 

 one example on summit of Croagh Patrick. — Apfwdius fossor* near West- 

 port. — A. sordidus* several in horse dung, Dugort strand, Achill. — A. ru- 

 fescens* Westport and Achill. — Cryptohypnus iv. -gut tat us* a few on the 

 shore of a small lake near Pontoon. — Corytnbites cupreus, var. cerugmosus* 

 one specimen in flight about half way up Croagh Patrick. — Tehphorus 

 nigricans* one specimen at Pontoon, a second on the summit of 

 Nephin. — Rhagium inquisitor, a specimen came to sugar in an old oak 

 wood near Pontoon.— Strangalia artnala* common in the Pontoon 

 district 



L. H. Bonaparte Wyse. 

 Kensington. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Scarcity of Wasps. 



I quite agree with Mr. R. M. Barringtou about the rarity of wasps this 

 season. I have been living, travelling, or collecting in eleven Irish 

 counties, and the only wasps I have seen were in a Dublin house and 

 garden, and one or two in Co. Cork. On eighteen days spent in the 

 open air in Clare, Galway, Mayo, and Donegal, I saw none. 



R. Welch. 

 Belfast. 



Limax cinereo-niger — A correction. 



In the mollusca list of the Cork Conference (p. 279 supra) A. W. Stelfox 

 and I give the specimen of the above, collected at Lough Allua, as the first 

 Irish record of var. vera. We find, however, that Miss Eva O'Connor, of 

 Bally castle, sent this variety from Fair Head in 1904 to W. Dennison 

 Roebuck, F.L.S., the first specimen of the species found in the north- 

 east. It is recorded in the appendix to Taylor's " Monograph of the 

 Land and Freshwater Mollusca of the British Isles," vol. ii., p. 269. In 

 September this year A. W. Stelfox and I found the same variety again 

 on the great rock talus under the cliff face of Fair Head. In his mono- 

 graph, vol. ii., and appendix, Taylor gives records of the species from 

 twelve Irish counties or vice-counties. 



R. WELCH. 



Belfast. 



