2 The Irish Naturalist. Jan\iary, 



P. Rathkii, especially female specimens, is subject to a 

 considerable range of colour variations, and also in the 

 extent to which it is tuberculated. Webb and Sillem^ 

 wrongly state that it " has a smooth body." Sars- says 

 that the dorsal face is rather convex " and slightly tuber- 

 culated," but I have in my collection many specimens, 

 from various localities, in which the tubercles are both 

 large and numerous. 



Tn Great Britain this species has been obtained in the 

 Isle of Wight and the Channel Isles, and the following 

 counties : — Oxford, Bucks, Suffolk, Stafford, Salop, Pem- 

 broke, Derby, Cheshire, Lancashire, Durham, Northumber- 

 land, Cumberland, Dumbarton, Kinkardine, and the 

 Orkneys. In all probability it will be found to be equally 

 common in Ireland. 



Examples of any species of Irish Woodlice wall be 

 welcomed and gratefully acknowledged by the writer. 



The University, St. Andrews. 



ACULEATE HYMENOPTERA FROM THE COUNTIES 

 OF ARMAGH AND DONEGAL. 



BY REV. W. F. JOHNSON, M.A., M.R.I. A. 



It is much to be regretted that the records of Irish Aculeate 

 Hymenoptera are so scanty as to make it impossible to 

 form any adequate idea of what species exist in this country 

 or how they are distributed. No one now seems to take 

 any interest in the ants, bees, and wasps of Ireland except 

 myself, and my attempts are but spasmodic. These insects 

 are among the most interesting of all insects and well repay 



* ' The British Woodlice," 1906, p. 34. 



"^ " Crustacea of Norway," i8q8, vol. ii., p. 180. 



