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think that by a careful examination oi Artemisia maritima (on which plant probably 

 it was found) between June and September, it is almost certain to be discovered. — 

 John Scott, 1, St. Mildred's Terrace, Bromley Eoad, Lee, S.E. : April, 1877. 



Note on Trioza juniperi, Meyer-Dilr. — This insect, to which I called attention 

 on page 66 ante, proves to be T. proxima, Flor. The certainty of this is based 

 on types received by me from Dr. Flor himself, as well as the corroboration of Dr. 

 Franz Low. Dr. Flor took the species on Finns abies at the end of August and 

 beginning of September, and I am now in stronger hope than ever of its being found in 

 Britain. — Id. 



Laccometopus clavicornis, L., and its relation to Teucrium chamcedrys. — The 

 following note, supplementary to Mr. Douglas' on this subject (p. 236 ante) may be 

 useful. Teucrium chamcedrys is not a native plant, but is naturalised on old walls in 

 Britain and in sandy fields in Ireland. In Britain it chiefly occurs in the south, as 

 the following abstract of Mr. Watson's remarks on its distribution (Compendium 

 Cybele Britannica) will show : — Cornwall ; Devon ; Somerset ; Hants ; Sussex ; 

 West Thames ; Norfolk ; West Ouse; South and North Severn ; South-East, South- 

 West, and North Wales ; Yorksliire ; Tyne ; Perth ; Forfar ; and I have seen it in 

 Aberdeen. — F. Buchanan White, Perth : April, 1877. 



The Entomological Collections of the Dublin Society. — As I see a notice in the 

 Entomologist's Monthly Magazine for April, that a portion of the late Mr. E. Brown's 

 British collections were secured for the Royal Dublin Society, the present seems a 

 good opportunity for calling the attention of my own countrymen who are interested 

 in entomology (scarcely a dozen of whom have visited Ireland during the past ten 

 years) to what is to be seen in Dublin in the way of insects. It must not be 

 supposed that this is a merely local museum ; it has long been supported by Q-ovem- 

 ment, and is at present about to be placed wholly under G-overnment management, 

 and new and extensive museum buildings are projected, although the present 

 museum consists (exclusive of corridor, staircase, &c.) of two magnificent rooms 200 

 feet long, with a double gallery in the upper one. 



The entomological collection is in a separate room, and is at present contained 

 in twenty large cabinets, as follows : — British Coleoptera 1, Diptera and Hymeno- 

 ptera 1, Macro-Lepidoptera 1, other Orders 1. Foreign Coleoptera 3, Lepidoptera 10, 

 Orthoptera 1, Remiptera and Homoptera 1, other Orders 1. Several Orders have 

 outgrown the space allotted to them, and additional cabinets are about to be added 

 for their accommodation. The Britisli insects purchased at Mr. Brown's sale consist 

 chiefly of Ilymenoptera, Neuroplera, Orthoptera and Hemiptera. The most re- 

 markable of the foreign insects in the Society's collection are pcrliaps the Hemiptera 

 (consisting mainly of the late Mr. Curtis's collection), and the Lepidoptera ITeterocera, 

 which were lately enriched by the purchase of Mr. Sharpe's fine collection of 

 Sphingidm. Fine series of insects of various Orders from Sierra Leone, Jamaica, 

 Japan, and other interesting localities, have also been acquired from time to.time, 

 thereby adding large numbers of rare and new species to the collection. 



I ought, perhaps, to mention tliat the late Mr. A. II. Haliday's collection did not 

 come to us, but forms part of the Museum of Trinity College, Dublin. — W. F. Kihbt, 

 Museum, Koyal Dublin Society, Kildare Street, Dublin : 2nd April, 1877. 



