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of the Island :— Mull Hills (200-400 ft.) 11.5.03,29.5.04, 6.6 04; Bradda (250- 

 400 ft.), 30.4.04, 28.5.04, 5.6.04; Carnanes and Surby Mountain (500-6UO ft.) 

 22.5.04, 10.7.04 ; Colby Glen, 27.5.04, 5.6.04 ; Poolraish, 26.5.04. I have chiefly 

 met with this species on the hills in sfercore ovino et equiito, but I have also found 

 it on the low limestone cliffs at I'oolvaish, and one specimen I swept in Colby Glen. 



Out of a total of 100 specimens, eight of the variety with black elytra occurred. 

 No examples with the elytra testaceous, and only the striae dark wei'e found, but two 

 examples have the black markings on the interstices small and faintly marked. A 

 small proportion of the specimens may be called dark varieties, the black markings 

 being longer than in the prevailing form, and in some cases coalescing. 



Though generally distributed throughout England, Wales, and Scotland, this 

 species appears to be very local in some districts ; for instance, it is quite rare in 

 Lancashire and Cheshire. Tt is also rare in Ireland, being recorded from only 

 four localities in Ulster, Connaught, and Munster. 



A. depres-tus, Kug. : I have met with fifteen examples : Bradda, 31.5.03, 7.9.02, 

 6.9.03; Mull Hills, 21.5.03, 29.5.04, 6.6.04; Ballagawne, Eushen, 28.5.03; Car- 

 nanes, 22.5.04. Four of these specimens have the elytra of a distinct reddish 

 colour, except near the base, which is blackish ; two have a slight dark reddish 

 tinge on the disc and apex ; the rest are of the usual black colour. 



There are therefore, up to the present tiine, 18 species of the genus Aphodius 

 recorded from the Isle of Man. A. sci/balarlus, F., should certainly occur, and wilj 

 in all probability be met with on the coast, more especially in the sandy district to 

 the north. A. sordidus, F., A. putridus, Sturm, and A. plagiatus, L., though 

 local species may possibly occur in the Isle of Man, judging from their distribution 

 infGreat Britain and Ireland. A. fcetidun, F., might possibly be found, seeing that 

 A. lapponum, Gyll., occurs. 



A. constans, Duft., and A. granarius, L., might just possibly occur, the former 

 having been recorded from Cheshire, Yorkshire, and Northumberland, and as 

 common in the Foyle District, Ireland, and the latter species being frequent 

 on the Lancashire and Cheshire coasts, and being recorded from the Foyle District 

 and near Belfast. We should perhaps expect A. inquinatus, F., to be present on 

 the coast, though it must be noted that it has not yet been discovered in any 

 locality in Ireland. It is generally distributed throughout the greater part of 

 England and Wales, becoming rai-er towards the north and local in the Tweed and 

 Forth Districts of Scotland, and it is a very common species on the Lancashire and 

 Cheshire sandhills. Mr. E. J. Burgess-Sopp in " The Entomologist's Record " for 

 May, 1904, describes an immigration flight of this species on April 16th, 1904, at 

 Birkdale and Ainsdale on the Lancashire coast, and suggests that the swarm may 

 have come from Cheshire or North Wales, being blown out to sea and then back to 

 land towards sunset. The possibility of a portion of such a swarm alighting in the 

 Isle of Man certainly suggests itself, and on May 14th, 1904, I found the abdomen 

 and elytra of an Aphodius which may possibly be this species, in a hollow on the 

 sand dunes near the Point of Ayre, Isle of Man. — J. Haeold Bailey, Port Erin, 

 Isle of Man : January \st, 1905. 



Note on Ocyusa maura, Er., and 0. picina, Aube. — With reference to the dis- 

 tinctions between Ocyusa maura, Er., and Ocyusa j^icina, Aube, there is, in 



