1 66 The Irish Naturalist* Jul}', 



A. hydro/a pathi. At the Cakile maritima were various 

 lyepidoptera, Vanessa io, V. cardui, Macroglossa stellatartim, 

 Agrotis valligera, A tritici, A. 7iigrica7iSi and Leucania littoralis. 

 I daresay we would have got many other moths but for the 

 bad weather. We had only one night at the flowers that pro- 

 duced anj'thing ; other evenings were too cold for the moths 

 to be about. Besides these Lepidoptera, I took a few bees, 

 Bovibus vemistiis and B. terresfris, at the flowers, and crawling 

 on the sand under the plants the coleopteron Saprinus 

 maritimus. 



Tliough there were several dead rabbits lying about, I found 

 very few carrion beetles, the only species being Necrophorus 

 7'uspator 2ii\di Silpha rugosa. Immediatel}' behind the sand- 

 hills the ground is cut up in a most peculiar manner into 

 small raised mounds of irregular shape which we likened to 

 garden beds — these mounds were of sand grown over with 

 dwarf Sallow, Ragweed, Scabious, and Moss. In the bare sand 

 between these mounds were Blodius erratiais, B. Io7iguhcs, 

 Dyschiri2is politus, D. globosus, but none in plent}^ ; they were 

 scattered about in little colonies and took a great deal of work 

 to get. Among the herbage were My7i7iedo7iia colla7'is (a single 

 specimen captured b}^ Mrs. Johnson), Osrobitis cya7ieus (also a 

 single specimen), A7iisoto77ia calcarata, Phyllodecta vitelli7icB 

 (on the sallow), Adi77i07iia ta7iaceti. On the Ragweed and 

 Sallow we obtained the larvae of Lasiocai7ipa rubi, and flying 

 at dusk were plenty of Cidaria test at a, also Etibo/ia 77ie7isuraria 

 and a very bad specimen of Eiipethecia absy7ithiaia. In the 

 grassy ground beyond these mounds we took Epi7iephelejanira, 

 the female approaching the male form very nearly ; but 

 sweeping the herbage proved to be a waste of time. Near the 

 little river mentioned above were some small pools and in 

 these I took Odhebius bicolo7i and O. ptmctatics. Several species 

 o{ Aphodius occurred i7i stcrcore ^z'/;z(? among the sandhills and 

 on adjacent ground, the best being A. iiitiduliis, A. scybalarius, 

 and A. putridiis. The second of these was the most abundant ; 

 Geotriipes was not plentiful, and I only met with G. siyiiiiget 

 and G. stc7-corarius. Along the river bank, or rather the shore 

 of the estuary, the swirl of the current had deposited a good 

 deal of seaweed, and under and in this were numbers ot 

 Cercyo7i littoralis^ var. bipiuidata. This form was very plentiful 



