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Atiapanihia mlrans, mixed with his scries of Stcnnatula fcrrca, to which 

 species it bears jv supertieial reseiubhmce, aud he thought that it camu 

 from the Midlands. It occurs ou the Coutiueut. 



Cli/tus iiii/sticH.siih. /tu'roijli/plticHs, llbst. — As meutioued in " Current 

 Notes " of the Knt. llcconl for November, 1S!»8, Mr. Walker exhibited this 

 aberration from Chester, at the meetiuj;' of the Ent. Hoc. of Loudon, 

 October 5th. It dillers from the type form in having the shoulders of the 

 elytra black, the usual red colour of that part being entirely absent. 

 Stephens {MamuU <>f British Beetles, }). 275) says "base of elytra rarely 

 black." There is an example of this aberration in the Stepheusiau 

 cabinet. 



Kphialtes carhonarim. — I have taken this ichneumon inserting its 

 very long ovipositor into the borings of Callidium viulaceum, in the 

 New Forest. It appears to be parasitic also on Ccramhyx lieros, Saperda 

 popidnea and Oberea oculuta. 



Occurrence op Lamia (Morimus) asper, Sulz. (an introduced 

 Longicorne), at Hackney. — In a small box of British Coleoptera, 

 recently received from Mr. J. A. Clark, of Hackney, for the i)urpose 

 of identification, I found a large black Longicorne, which I did not 

 recognise. On taking it to the Natural History Museum, Mr. C. 0. 

 Waterhouse named it as Lamia asper, Sulz., a South European species. 

 Mr. Clark writes me that the insect (which is a $ ) was " taken at rest 

 ou a tree in Well Street, South llaclaicy, I should say about Jime, 

 18!J7." As there are some large timber-yards in the vicinity, its origin 

 is probably not far to seek. L. asper resembles the British L. te.vtor, 

 Linn., in the absence of markings. — F. B. Jennings. 



Notes on Irish Coleoptera. — During the past season I have 

 been too much occupied with other matters to give as much attention 

 to Coleoptera as I would have wished. The spring was not early, and 

 was wet and cold, but the summer was very fine, though by no means 

 so dry as in parts of England. In the latter part of April I met with 

 a single Lochinaea rrataei/i, Forst., S' • H was sitting on a blade of 

 grass, and on my first attempt I failed to capture it, for, not having a 

 net, I tried to catch it in my b.and. In a couple of days I was at the 

 place again, and found it once more sitting on a blade of grass, and this 

 time captured it. In the same place I took another specimen, in June, 

 by beating hawthorn blossom. In April, I picked up, in my own fields, 

 I'teroslichns niijrita, Aijabus sturniii, Hister nei/lectus, Aloplius triiinttatus 

 and Mecinus pijraster. It is noteworthy that Hister ne<jlectUH is tolerably 

 common in Ireland, while II. carbanariiis is decidedly rare. On April 

 28th, I took a trip down to Greenore in hopes of getting some good 

 Coleoptera on the beach there, ])ut a bitter east wind quite frustrated 

 all endeavours, and places wliich usually are alive with insect life 

 presented an entirely inanimate api)earance. The only capture of any 

 note was Anthieus scDtieus, which was crawling over the shingle 

 instead of, as on former occasions, being ou llonekeyna pephndes. 

 Besides it I took Beiiihiiliniii feiiiorattiiii, (Juedius seiniaoieiis, Ca/iKs 

 xa)ifh<ilo>na, Sajiriniis aeneus, Cassida Jiohilis and Aplmdius ater. Early 

 in June I got a few Tclephonis nigricans along with Bi/turns tomen- 

 tosHs and Anthonomiia pedivularis. In July, I was at Loughgilly 

 Rectory, ou a visit to Rev. H. S. M. liar[)er, aud proceeded to 



