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variety of C. granulans. At first sight it looks different to any 

 British species, though it can hardly have been mistaken for C clath- 

 ratus, unless the finder had never seen the latter" ; which was by no 

 means improbable in all the above four cases. Large dark C granu- 

 lans, such as those in the British Museum from Dartmoor, are not 

 dissimilar to Panzer's figure. 



III. 



" Carabus dailwatus is not a beetle easily overlooked, and would 

 probably have been discoverd if it existed in Wales, where areas 

 apparently eminently suitable for it are abundant," says W E Sharp 

 (Entom. Eec. 1901, p. 204). The above notices are all we have from 

 the whole of England, and J. J. Walker's statement that "it is cer- 

 tainly not a species of common occurrence in England (judging from 

 the few specimens I have seen in collections)," Ent, Mo. Mag., XVII 

 1880, p. 42, is too indefinite to be of any bearing on the question. 



"It is well known that this grand Carabus is no rarity in some 

 parts of Ireland," he very truly says (loc. cit.) ; Fowler, in 1887 

 mentions : Enniskerry, Westport, and Donegal, though in 1913 he con- 

 siders it widely distributed throughout Ireland, probably on the full 

 data supplied in Johnson and Halbert's Irish List, of 1902 ; the latter 

 authors record it in the "Terrestrial Coleoptera of Clare Island" 

 (Proc. E. Irish Acad. 1912, p. 3) from Clare Island, Achill Island 

 Inmsbofin, Doo Lough, Louisburgh, Innisturk and Westport, but con- 

 sider its distribution to be northern. It may be commoner there 

 though by no means unknown in the south, for the Dublin Museum 

 contains it from Eoundstone, in 1896 ; Earteen bog at Limerick 

 in 1901 ; Leenane, in 1897 ; Eathlin, in 1897 ; the Great Sugar Loaf' 

 m 1897; Croaghmore and some of the above-mentioned localities' 

 Further south-west it is certainly rare, and we failed to see it at all in 

 Waterford, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, or Dublin, during a six weeks 

 visit last summer, though Mr. Bullock of Killarney, showed us one he 

 himself had captured beneath a stone on peat, about 800 feet up Bull 

 Mountain, at the Cap of Dunloe (where we spent two hours' fruitless 

 search for it), and another from Calway. The British Museum has it 

 from Kerry Hill, October, 1885 (Power), and Kerry Mountains 1877 

 (J. A. Brewer). Haliday's MSB., preserved at Dublin, tell us it used 

 to occur in " Connemara peat bogs passim," etc. (for other Irish 

 records, cf. Ent. Eec, 1902, p. 240; Ent. Mo. Mag., XVII 1880 

 p. 42 ; XXVIII, 1892, p. 311 ; XXXVIII, 1902, p. 178 ; etc ) ' 



