1896.] Carp^nI^KR. — Mingling of the Morth and South. 63 



tiful along the south and south-west coasts. Yet on Aran, 

 this insect — characteristic of the well-wooded and highly 

 cultivated south of England — was abundant. On Aran too 

 we got three species of Attidcs or jumping-spiders — a family 

 which in tropical countries outnumbers all other spiders — 

 though but seven species are, as yet, known in Ireland. Most 

 striking of all however is the fact that some of the western 

 Irish animals have a south-eastern range in Great Britain, 

 and would be confidently referred to Watson's Germanic type 

 of distribution. Such are some of Mr. Dillon's most startling 

 Clonbrock lepidoptera' — Zeuzera pyrina^ Macrogaster castanecs^ 

 and Limacodes testudo. And it is possible that two of the 

 most conspicuous animals which attracted our attention around 

 Galway — the large %x2i^^\i.Q'^'^^x Mccostethtis grossus,2Ci\^\h.^ great 

 wolf-spider Dolomedes Jivibriatits — must be reckoned as corre- 

 sponding to these, though their continental range might 

 indicate a northern origin. With little doubt we may place 

 alongside them the lyough Corrib jumping-spider — Attus 

 floricola — perhaps the most remarkable zoological find of the 

 excursion, a German species, possibly occurring in France, but 

 unknown in Great Britain. And here also belongs a discovery 

 made by Messrs. F. Neale and J. N, Halbert near Limerick this 

 year : Panagceus crux-major, a handsome ground beetle con- 

 fined in Great Britain to south-eastern England, and ranging 

 over Europe into the south of Siberia. 



So much for the south. What had the Galway excursion 

 to tell us of northern animals ? On the summit of Ben Eettery, 

 it was my good fortune to take a specimen of the rare alpine 

 ground-beetle, Leistus mo7ita7ius, not occurring in Great Britain 

 south of Cumberland. By lyough Corrib shore, Mr. Halbert 

 found another mountain beetle of the same family — Carabus 

 clathratus — which inhabits various localities in Scotland, is 

 unknown in England, Wales, or eastern Ireland, but is found 

 on the mountains of the west as far south as Bantry Bay. 

 But most striking of all was another ground-beetle which Mr. 

 Halbert took on Eough Corrib shore : Pelophila borealis. By 

 many an Irish lake is this beetle to be found, from Killarney 

 to Armagh and Donegal. On the mainland of Great Britain 

 it is quite unknown ; but it reappears in the Orkneys, and 



' Etttom.y 1894. 



