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Aphodius rufesren.t, A. nijipes, and A. depresx!'", in stercore bovino, under which I 

 searched carefully for Oeotrupes, but failed to get anything but &. stercorarius, L. 

 One morning, as I climbed to the top of one of the sand-hills, a couple of crows rose 

 reluctantly from some object in the valley beneatli ; I descended in the hasty and 

 undignified manner rendered necessary by the steepness of the slope, and found a 

 nice young rabbit, in prime condition for attracting carrion-loving beetles ; I visited 

 it every day till my departure with very satisfactory results, taking the following : 

 Necrophortis ruspator {huniator did not appear, though common on Antrim coast), 

 Silpha ritgosa, Creophilus maxillosus, Ocypus cupreu.i, Xantholinus punctidatiis, X. 

 linearis, Philonihus succicola, Thorns, (pruximus, Kr.), Ph. sanguinolentus, Ph. 

 longicornin, Ph. varians, Ph. margiuatu.^ (also very common in stercore), Aleochara 

 fuscipes, Tachinus marglnellus, T. laticollis, Choleoa morio, C. cisteluides, Saprinus 

 nitidulus, and <S. ceneus, this last was very numerous. Serica hrunneawaa abundant, 

 crawling about the sand and herbage, or lying dead in the hollows. ^^giaHa 

 arenaria and Otiorhgnchus atroapterus occurred crawling on the sides of sand-iiills, 

 always choosing the steepest and barest places ; sweeping ragweed produced Longi- 

 tarsus (TAgamis) gracUix, L.jacohrece, Wat. {tabidus, 01 ), very plentiful, L. lesvis, 

 and Coccinella ll-punclata ; on thistles I took Sphceroderma cardui and S. testaceum, 

 and by general sweeping, Meligethes viduatus, M. cenetis, Brachypterus pubesceiis, 

 Adrastus limbatus, Agriotes obscurus, Apionfagi, A. carduorum, A. ervi, A. loti, 

 Ceuthorhynchus poUinarius , Ceuthorhynchideustroglodytes,axi.A. Cneorhinus geminatu-t. 

 Inland I took in a boggy pond Maliplus obliquus, ITydroporus vittula, H. tristii, 

 Helophorus aquaticus, H. aneipennis, Anarcena globulus, Payk, and Limnebius 

 papposus. In the river Drowes, or Bundrowes, as they call it at Bundoran, I got 

 some Limnius tuberculatiis, and by beating sallows, Crepidodera ventralis, C. helxines, 

 C. transversa, and Dorytomus maculatus. I have given a very extended list of my 

 captures as the locality was apparently unworked previously. No doubt, with a more 

 favourable season, and a longer time to work, a much longer and more interesting 

 list could be obtained. — W. F. Johnson, Winder Terrace, Armagh : Nov. 6th, 1890. 



Hydroporuft septentrionalis and other Coleoptera in the Plymouth district. — On 

 September 9th, 1890, one specimen of H. septentrionalis was obtained in a pool beside 

 the river Plym, near Plymouth. Although frequent search was made no further 

 examples were discovered. In the spring of 1890 Deronectes latus was caught in 

 some pebbly pools in the same locality, and Scydma-nus nanus was shaken out of 

 rubbish at the foot of an oak near at haiul. One specimen of Panngt^us i-pn.ifnlatus 

 under stone on slope near the sea, a couple of Oxt/felus maritimus and LymneBum 

 riigrupireum, Phytosux balticiis, and Sipalia testacea were captured accidentally on 

 the seashore. The first specimen of Lymnannn was taken accidentally wliilst 

 ■watching the sand-hoppers, Ac, compelled to beat a hasty retreat from their labours 

 on the decaying seaweed and other rejectamenta on the seashore as the sea advanced 

 a few minutes before high water on the spring tide ; search being made afterwards 

 at low water, the head quarters of the insect was traced out, and sevei-al specimens 

 secured. Entomologists at the seaside might find it worth while to visit suitable 

 localities on the occasions mentioned ; and, even though no rare capture should be 

 made, they would, nevertheless, find that tlie remarkable spectacle of a countless 

 army of sand-hoppers and other Crustacea, witii a greater or less sprinkling of beetles, 



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