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from Mullinure. Oxytelus Fairmairei, in flood rubbish from Mulliniire. Meligethex 

 lumbaris, sweeping herbage at Lowry's Lough, in June. Acritus minutus, several 

 taken in a hotbed by one of ray pupils. Byrrhus fasciattts, on Carlingford Mountain, 

 and on Dcadman's Hill, near Newtown Hamilton, in this county. Anaspis suh- 

 testacea, taken by Eev. S. A. Brenan at Cullybacky, Co. Antrim. Tropiphorus 

 carinatux, in moss from Mullinure. Besides these, I may mention Bemhidium Doris, 

 of whieh I have taken some examples in flood rubbish from the MuUinures, and in 

 moss from the edge of Lowry's Lough. On March 9th last, I was driven up to 

 Newtown Hamilton, and got a couple of bags of moss from that vicinity. These 

 produced Bradycelliis cognatiis, B. similis, Acidota crenata, Tachyporus transver- 

 salis, and a couple of Mantiira chrysanthemi,oi which I had taken a single specimen 

 previously in moss from the Vicar's Cairn, at an elevation of 800 feet. The present 

 locality is fully as high. Ilydroporus obscurus is plejitiful in a pond about half way 

 up Carlingford Mountain, and in a bog near Vicar's Cairn. Salpingus ceratus 

 occurred in moss about stumps of fir trees near this. The only other Irish record 

 appears to be Dr. Power's, near Dublin. In moss from the Palace Demesne, mostly 

 from about tree stumps, I took, in March, lihizophagiis cribratus and R.perforatus ; 

 Mr. J. J. Walker records both from Gal way, so they are probably widely distributed. 

 Ou April 4th, there was a flood in the MuUinures, owing to the heavy rains, so 

 as soon as the weather permitted, I hurried down with my bags. The rubbish was 

 not yet deposited, for the flood had not reached its height, so I took my water net, 

 and fished out all I could carry, and I must say the result was most satisfactory, and 

 I feel sure I took many species which, had I waited for the subsidence of the waters, 

 would have escaped me. Of course, it makes the carrying of the bags a damp 

 business, in fact, I was wet through, but that is a trifle compared to the gain in 

 captures. Some idea may be formed of the numbers which wore contained in this 

 rubbish when I mention that Mrs. Johnson had to take a clothes brush and brush 

 me down, so covered was my coat after sorting the contents of my bag. One of my 

 captures astonished me very greatly. This was Pelophila borealix, of which a single 

 specimen made its appearance. I never expected to see it in the MuUinures, which is 

 'quite unlike any of tlie other localities in which I have taken it. I have ascertained 

 by experiment that it will hibernate, and probably does so naturally, but I have 

 never met with it in the moss which I have from time to time gathered at Lowry's 

 Lough. Judging from what it did witii tne, it burrows into the ground and lies 

 dormant till the warm weather brings it out I also took Bemhidium ceneum, which 

 had not appeared in this immediate vicinity previously ; Agahus tmguicularis ; 

 Dytiscus circumcinctus, a fine $ ; a single specimen of Helophorus nubilus, &\so new 

 to this district ; a few Megacronus citigulatus ; Lathrobium quadratiim and L. 

 longulum, both of these arc tolerably numerous here ; and one Erirhiuus athiops. 

 Tlie season is terribly backward, and sweeping practically useless ; I worked hard at 

 it yesterday morning, and could get nothing but some common Apions, while off 

 some willows I beat a number of Phratora vifelliiKe, which were devouring tlie 

 young leaves at a great rate. — W. F. Johnson, Winder Terrace, Armagh : May 

 26tk, 1891. 



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Microdon mutabilis, L. — The record of the capture of this very curious Dipteron 

 which at first sight, when at rest, may be mistaken for a bee or a saw-fly, will 



