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Trechus obtusus . 

 Myrmedonia canaliculata 

 Tach vporus solutus 

 Quedius molochinus 



„ tristis 

 Ocypus cupreus . 

 Philonthus politics 

 „ varius 



„ marginatus 

 Xantholinus linearis 

 t Whins full 'ipennis 

 Lathrobium fulvipenne 

 c Hophrum piceum 

 Silpha atrata var. subrotun 

 Choleva augustata 

 1 >' 1 7 rli us fi isi lii lus 

 Cryptohypnus riparius 

 Agriotes obscurus 

 „ llneatus 

 Helops striates 



Otiorrhynchus sulcatus 



„ mounts . 



Cneorhinus eeminatus . 



lata 



Slieve Donard. 



Common in ants' nests. 



Locality not noted. 



Slieve Donard. 



Common. 



Dun drum. 



Common. 



Common. 



Slieve Donard. 



Common. 



Slieve Donard. 



Common. 



Slieve Donard. 



Common. 



Slieve Donard. 



Slieve Donard, common. 



Slieve Donard, common. 



Common. 



Several. 



Under fir-bark, Donard Lodge 



demesne, abundant. 

 Slieve Donard. 

 Slieve Donard. 

 Sandhills, Newcastle. 



Flowers and Inflorescences. 



By E. M. Wood, Liverpool Naturalists 11 Field Club. 



ALTHOUGH we may say that summer and flowers are 

 synonymous, there is hardly a time in our country in 

 the whole cycle of the year that some flowers are not 

 in existence. Even in the cold grip of winter's frost, 

 some hardy flowers, such as the groundsel or the daisy, 

 brave the cold and struggle to show a cheery face in 

 adverse times. But summer brings the flowers in their 

 welcome thousands, in such satisfying numbers, colouring 

 and perfuming the countryside, that indeed the valleys 

 may laugh and sing as in the time of plenteous harvest. 

 It is the effort of nature to produce seed, or the equivalent 

 of seed, and the organs by which this is accomplished in 

 phanerogams or flowering plants, are contained in the part 

 of the plant commonly called the flower, which exhibits 

 an immense variety of shapes, sizes, and colours, as well 

 as great differences in the numbers and positions of its 



