Notes. 55 



cans, A. vicice, A. flavimamcm, A. luti, A. crucntattivi, A. violamim • Otior- 

 rhynchus sulcatus, A. atroaptcriis ; Philopedon cxamtus, a larj<e and very white 

 form; Sitoiies tibialis, S. regcnstcincnsis ; Nanophycs /v^^ri. plentiful on tlie 

 Purple Loosestrife ; Eypera pohjgoni, H. planlwjinis,'lL ni)ru-oslris, Memun 

 pyraster, Poophagtis sisymbrii, Bhinoncus 2)eric(irpius. 



I took altogether i66 species, but this cannot be rei^arded as more than 

 a sample of the species there, for I was there at a bad time for Coleopter-i 

 VIZ., July and August, and of course had to discover the localities that 

 were suitable, not always an easy task in a strange place — W F 

 Johnson, Armagh. or- • • 



The Pine Saw-FIy (Lophyrus pinl) In the North of Ireland. 



In September, 1891, Mr. W. H. Patterson and I observed a colony of 

 larvae about an inch m length, and of a pale green colour, with a row of 

 ten to twelve black spots on each side, and glossy brown heads, busily 

 engaged in devouring the leaves of an Austrian Pine (Pi,nis austrinca) at 

 Sydenham, two miles from Belfast. Specimens were submitted to Mr. 

 Edward Saunders, who identified them as the larvae of the Pine Saw-fly, 

 Lophyrus pi7ii. Mr. W. F. de V. Kane having informed me that Co! 

 Wicklow^ was the only Irish record for this species that he had previously 

 known of, I wrote to the local press with the hope of obtaining further 

 information as to its existence in the north of Ireland. As a result, 

 Mr. William Hanna, of Antrim-road, Belfast, wrote me that about three 

 years before, a great swarm of caterpillars attacked a pine in his garden, 

 devouring almost every leaf on the tree. He kept some of them till they 

 reached the pupa stage, and one of the cases he enclosed in his letter ; 

 this pupa-case, my friend Mr. G. H. Carpenter tells me, is certainly that 

 of Lojjhyrus piini. Neither at Antrim-road, nor at Sydenham, has the 

 species re-appeared. In September last, in the plantations of the Cave 

 Glen, at Craigavad, near Holyw^ood, I found a small colony of lar\'ae on 

 an Austrian pine which were certainly identical with those found at 

 Sydenham. We have thus three recent occurrences of this destructive, 

 but happily rare insect, near Belfast: possibly this note may elicit infor- 

 mation as to its appearance in other localities in Ireland. — R. Lloyd 

 PraEGER. 



MOLLUSCA. 



Spirula, lanthina, and Velella at Lough Swllly._ln the 



Irish Naturalist, vol. i., p. 195, it is stated that I wrote to the Zoologist that 

 these mollusca were washed up at Portsalon, Lough Swilly. It was at Car- 

 rablagh they were washed up, in the bay below my house. Portsalon is 

 the name of the Post Office, a mile up the lough— a rocky coast where such 

 a circumstance could not occur.— H. C. Hart, Carrablagh, Co. Donegal. 



Our New Planorbis, P. riparlus, West. — In reference to Mr. 

 Milne's note in the Irish Naturalist, vol. i., 1892, I may mention that the 

 leading characters of the shell of Planorbis riparius, West, are as fol- 

 lows:— Shell very much flattened, finely striated, three to three and a-half 

 whorls, the last very w4de, with blunt keel, umbilicus large, all whorls 

 being visible; breadth, 3-3^ mm. Its very wide umbilicus distinguishes 

 it at once from PL fontanus and PI. nitidus. In general appearance, 

 indeed, it is more like a large PL crista, L., but there is no trace of the 

 ridges on the whorls which are so characteristic of that species.— 

 R. F. ScHARFF, Dublin. 



Marine Mollusca of Killala Bay in the current number of the 



Journal of Conchology, Miss Amy Warren contributes a highly interesting 

 article on the marine shells found on the shores of the bay of Killala, on 

 the borders of Mayo and Sligo. Though the list is the result of shore- 

 gathering only, it includes 183 species, some of them of great rarity; and 

 as no list of the Mollusca of the district has been previously published, 

 the record of even the commoner species add to our knowledge of their 

 distribution. Annotations on the habitats eflfected by the littoral species 



