i5S [July, 



Amarafulva and A. bifrons. On Honckenya peploides were Anthicus scoticus, Me- 

 lanophthalma fuscula, Cassida flaveola, and a single Sitones humeralis, which was 

 captured bv Mrs. Johnson ; also a couple of the Hemipteron, Nysius th.ymi. We 

 missed the last train and had to stay for the night at the hotel, and in the dusk 

 captured Herbula cespitalis, Sciaphila conspersana, Xanthosetia zoegana, and De- 

 pressaria liturella. 



On the 27th there was a flood in Mullinure consequent on the heavy rains, and 

 I got a couple of bags of refuse. In this I found three Erirrhinus csthiops and one 

 Hippodamia Id-punctafa. Besides these two species were a multitude of others, but 

 of usual occurrence at Armagh. 



On August 8th I visited Camlough Lake, near Bessbrook ; beetles were not 

 plentiful, but I obtained PelophUa borealis, Taphria nivalis, Bembidium flammu- 

 latum, Staphylinus caesareus, and Barynotus Schonherri, with other commoner 

 species. The lake is a long, narrow one in the cleft of the hills, and with a more 

 favourable time and with better opportunities might produce interesting species. 



Loughgall is a favourite and productive locality, so Mrs. Johnson and I drove 

 out there on August 10th. In the Manor grounds I took a ? of Acilius fasciatus, 

 and a specimen of Aphodius fastens. Of Lepidoptera I may record Q-rapholitha 

 ramella {Paykulliana), Q. nisella {nisana), Argyresthia semitestacella, and A. 

 nitidella. The remainder of August was more or less a blank owing to bad weather. 



On September 4th I went to Tynan to look for Bledius fracticornis on the canal 

 bank. I obtained a goodly number, and also a specimen of Necrophorus humator, 

 the latter in a dead hedgehog. I found a Plusia festuca sitting on Carex, and caught 

 the Hymenopteron, Mellinus arvensis on the wing. 



On September 26th I received a fine Acherontia Atropos which had been caught 

 at Bessbrook, Co. Armagh, and on October 19th, while digging for pupse in the 

 Palace Demesne, I took a specimen of Xanthia ferruginea at the foot of a tree. The 

 remainder of the year I was too busy with other matters to do any collecting, and 

 my removal here opens up new and untried ground, and I am looking forward with 

 a certain amount of excitement to the results of the collecting campaign which I 

 have already opened with some success. — W. F. Johnson, Acton Glebe, Poyntzpass : 

 March ^rd, 1896. 



Swarm of Oeotrupes siercorarius, L., at Poyntzpass. — On March 2-2nd, at 

 about 7.30 p.m., two boys came to me in a great state of excitement to tell me that 

 there was a swarm of beetles at the railway station. One had a largec ardboard box 

 and the other his coat pocket full of the beetles, in all some 70 specimens. On 

 examination they proved to be Geotrupes stercorarius. I was at the railway 

 station the next morning, and on the pathway and road were numbers of the beetles, 

 dead, where they had been trodden on by the people on the previous evening. I 

 can only account for the presence of such numbers by the circumstance of a large 

 cattle fair being held monthly in Poyntzpass and the consequent presence of a large 

 quantity of cow-dung at the station from the cattle that are removed by rail. I have 

 noticed that Geotrupes is very abundant about here, and on favourable evenings 

 their numbers are quite remarkable. — Ip. : May 5th, 1896. 



