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QwM.9 obllquus, Horv. : a correction.— In the description of this species in the 

 Ent. Mo. Mag. for March, 1909, the printers have, by the omission of a line, made 

 the last sentence but one unmeaning. It should read, " The apex of the coriura is 

 fuscous, and the faint fuscous streak on the hinder half of the corium is placed 

 obliquely," &c.— E. A. Butlee, 56, Ceeile Park, Crouch End, N. 



A day loith the Water Beetles at Armagh.-Ou October 20th, Mr. F. Balfour 

 Browne, F.Z.S., and myself journeyed to Armagh to interview the Water Beetles 

 of that locality. It was not an ideal day for an ouiing, and as we trudged along 

 the Lougligall road en route to the quarry where I purposed commencing operations 

 we were not altogether sorry to have waterproofs with us. However, as we were 

 after Water Beetles the rain did not matter very much, nor did the day become 

 worse, but rather better. Arrived at the quarry, which is just off the road, we 

 promptly got to work, and Mr. Balfour Browne soon had the satisfaction of taking 

 a fine Dytiscus circumcinctm, Ahr. ; this was unfortunately the only example met 

 with. In the same place was captured Rydroporus dorsalis, F. ; this was a most 

 interesting capture, for it was an addition to the Armagh list, and has consequently 

 appeared there since 1895, for so conspicuous an insect could not have escaped my 

 attention, especially in the locality which I worked so closely as the district in which 

 we found it, for it occurred in numbers not only in this quarry, but in every piece 

 of water in both Drummondmore and MuUinure. It was first recorded for Ireland 

 by Mr. Halbert and myself in the supplement to our List of the Beetles of Ireland 

 in 1901 as taken by the late Mr. Buckle in the Lagan Canal, near Moira in Co. 

 Down. It was next taken by Mr. W. H. Patterson, M.R.I.A., in a quarry at 

 Gilnahirk, near Knock, Co. Down, as recorded by me in the " Irish Naturalist," 

 1904, p. 93. The interesting question now arises, where did this beetle come from, 

 and when ? Is it only now making its way into the country, or has it been here 

 from all time? One thing I am certain of is, that it was not in MuUinure or 

 Drummondmore previous to 1895, when I left Armagh to reside here ; that is, it 

 has appeared there within the last thirteen years. Furthermore, there are no 

 records of its occurrence in Ireland at all save those already mentioned. This by 

 no means proves that it is not present elsewhere, for there is little or nothing known 

 about the Goleoptera of the central plain of Ireland, so that it may be present in 

 many other localities. In England it seems to be widely distributed, but Canon 

 Fowler, " British Coleoptera," vol. i, only gives a single Scottish locality, " Raehills, 

 Rev. W. Little," from Murray's Catalogue." This is remarkable as Dr. Sharp, 

 "Dytiscidffi," p. 481, Trans. R.D.S., gives a very northern range for it, " Northern 

 Europe and Siberia (Sweden, Finland to 68° 10' north, Sahlberg ; Britain, France, 



Germany)." 



Another pleasing capture was Acilius fasciatus, De Q., several specimens turn- 

 ing up in this quarry and others that we visited. The only other records of its 

 capture are my own, having taken one in a flax-hole near Armagh, and another in 

 a drain in the Manor grounds at Loughgall. 



Leaving our first quarry, we crossed the road to some flooded fields, and then 

 explored three other small quarries, one of which simply swarmed with Acilius 

 mlcatus, L. We then re-crossed the road, and going under the railway came to 



