240 The entomologist's record. 



of our trip with a complete list of the species captured daring our stay 

 will appear in the Irish Naturalist later on, when all the doubtful 

 species are worked out. In the meantime a short account of some of 

 the best of the coleoptera taken may be useful here. We were very 

 glad to take a series of the fine L'arabus dathratus, it was found on 

 marshy and boggy ground at the foot of Carrantual and other moun- 

 tains, Carrantual being an additional locality to the Irish list." It 

 is a very handsome insect as it runs over very wet places in the sun- 

 shine. A number of jet black forms of Carabm (jramdatus were taken 

 under stones, etc., on the mountains about. In the Irish list it is said to 

 vary '■ from dull bronze to brilliant green," and Fowler (Col. Brit, hies, 

 vol. i., p. 9) says "almost black; " our specimens, however, are abso- 

 lutely black without any metallic reflection whatever. One of the 

 features which struck us was the number of species of which melanic 

 forms were observed. Fterostichiis rersicolor, jet black, Ainara pleheia, 

 Anchninenus ridnus (not the var. woestits in one instance, but quite 

 black), P/n/lln/icrtha linrtiada, etc. Blethisa widti punctata mentioned 

 as "rare" in the Irish list was taken in marshy places. Anisodacti/lus 

 bi)iotatus var. spurcaticornis, occasionally on roads. I'ternsticJnis rersi- 

 color very plentiful on roads, a very variable series, the black form 

 being most frequent. Trech us lapidosus, under stones or in the clay at the 

 foot of the cliff, about a dozen specimens w^ere taken. In the Irish 

 list it is recorded as "rare," and it is further stated that in most of 

 the localities mentioned "only single specimens were met with." 

 Perilejitus areolatus. — This species is a very interesting addition to the 

 Irish beetle fauna. It was found in some numbers among the shingle on 

 the banks of the Sheen river. It has been recorded heretofore in Great 

 Britain from Lancashire, North Wales, and the Solway district of Scot- 

 land, but is always considered a rare insect. TacJn/porus for)nosus. — 

 Swept rather freely oii' herbage down a chine. In the Irish list it says the 

 previous records of this species require contirmation. The variety ciliaris, 

 Steph., of Creopldlus ma.villosus wsis not uncommon under dead birds 

 and carrion. Stajdnjlinus imhescens, ertjtJiropterus, and caesareus 

 occurred not uncommonly on roads, t 'occinella 1 1 -punctata var. coufiuens 

 (see I'^nt. Record, anted p. 99) occurred in numbers on the sandhills in a 

 similar place to that in which the Kev. Canon Cruttwell took them in 

 Galway, it was in our case accompanied by the type. The larvae were 

 feeding on Aphis on Lotus cinnieulatus. Ajdiodius depressus. — The 

 aberration with the red elytra Avas taken in sheep's dung on Carrantual. 

 FAater poiuonae [ininiatus, Gorham) is, perhaps, our most remarkable 

 addition to the Irish list, as it is apparently confined to the New Forest 

 in Great Britain. Several specimens were taken. Hylecoctus derwes- 

 tuides.- — This interesting beetle is also an addition to the Irish list. It 

 was taken out of birch and Hying. Its other British haunts are 

 Sherwood Forest, Cannock Chase, near Manchester, and Scotch High- 

 lands, rare. Lenia scj)te)itri<)nis, Weise. — A series was swept oft" Li/thruni 

 in one field near us. This is its first record for Kerry. That the Irish 

 species is sepitentrionis and not erichsoni, as it used to be considered, is 

 probably correct, but we cannot agree with Mr. Champion that the 

 Irish species is the same as that found in England (see Ent. Mo. Mai/., 



* " A List of the Beetles of Ireland," reviewed elsewhere in this magazine. 



