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Sphaeroderma cardui— July. One example amongst Bent-grass at 



Magilligan Point. 

 Anthlcus scotlcus— Dec. Two examples, shore of L. Neagh, near 



Shane's Castle. 

 Apion ccrdo — ^June. Banks of Lagan, near Moira. 

 A. subulatum— June. Near Newtownards, Co. Down ; and banks o 



Lagan, near Lisburn. 

 Otiorrhynchus blandus— May. This occurs in abundance on Quarry 



Point, Helen's Bay, Co. Down. Mr. H. Booth also took it in the same 



locality, and I have previously met with it at the mouth of Lough 



Foyle, on both Co. Derry and Co. Donegal side. 

 O. muscorum, — Seems to be fairly common in this district, as well 



as the Foyle district. 

 Tropiphorus tomcntosus — April. One example in moss on face of 



Cave Hill. 

 Ccuthorrhynchus angulosus — June. Taken by sweeping near 



Templepatrick, Co. Autrim. 

 *Dryocaetcs villosus — ^July. Two examples taken from a "felled" 



branch of Oak in Walworth Wood, Co. Derry. 

 Neoclytus erythroccphalus— Oct. Taken in a Belfast timber yard, 



and kindly given to me. This pretty Beetle, which was in splendid 



condition, was doubtless imported in timber. It is a native of North 



America, and was once previously recorded from timber "said to 



have been grown in Ireland." 



Water Bugs. 



Aphelochcirus aestivalis, Fab. — Sept. P'ound a large number of 

 dead dried specimens washed up on shore in Sandy Bay, Lough 

 Neagh, Co. Antrim. This confirms the only previous record of this 

 species in Ireland, which consisted of a single immature specimen 

 taken at Toome, Lough Neagh. 



Cymatia Bonsdorffii, vSahlberg — June. Occurs plentifully at the 

 Belfast end of the Lagan Canal. I do not know of any other locality 

 in the North of Ireland, but surely its range in Ulster can hardly be 

 restricted to the Lagan Canal. 



W00DI.ICB. 



Pored I io dllatatus, Brandt. — Occurs abundantly in outhouses in 

 Antrim Road, Belfast. I also received one example amongst the 

 mangled remains of a number of common butterflies and beetles, 

 kindly taken for me by a juvenile friend near Dunmurry, Co. 

 Antrim. It is significant that P. dilatatiis w^as the only Woodlouse 

 in the bottle. Since the publication of Dr. Scharff's Monograph in 

 1894 this species has been taken in Surrey, and in Galway; pre- 

 viously it had been found only in Dublin, and had not been recorded 

 from England. I have also taken it near Chichester. Sussex. 



