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Occurrence in (he north of Ireland of the true Ollorhynchus moniicola, Germ. — 

 On tlie 16tli of June last, Mr. Alliu and I captured at Kilkeel, County Down, four 

 examples of an Otiorhynchus, eyidently referable to monticola, Germ., wliieli differs 

 from our common northern species, hlandus, Q-yll., in being smaller, with the more 

 visible elytral strise extending to the apex, the rostrum merely punctate (not punctate- 

 rugose) , &c. These Irish specimens belong to the variety having the elytra more deeply 

 striate, and with rugulose interstices; they are very small (6 miUim.) — of the same size 

 as individuals from the Pyrenees. They were found by grubbing at the roots of Thymus 

 serpyllum, on the coast. The occurrence of a mountain species on the coast is very 

 strange, but a parallel instance has beeji recorded by the Rev. T. Blackburn in 

 Ent. M. M., xi, p. 112, where JU'ebria Gyllenhali and other mountain species are 

 noted as having been captured on the coast in Shetland. — Gr. C. Champion, 27-4, 

 Walworth Road, London: August lUh, 1875. 



Note on a few Irish and Welsh Coleoptera. — The following local species, amongst 

 others, n\et with by Mr. Allin and myself, during a short stay last June, in North 

 Wales, and at Newcastle, and in the North of Ireland, seem worth recording. I 

 think, without exception, the latter locality is about the most unproductive I have 

 yet visited. Scarcely anything but the commonest species (and those very rarely) 

 occurred. Unfortunately, during our stay, both in Wales and in Ireland, it was 

 wet nearly every day, aiid this, with the continual mists on the moinitains, 

 stopped our working long. I note Pterostichus athiops, common under stones on 

 Suowdon : Uarpahis neglectus, on the sand-hills, Rhyl : Bemhidium saxatile, on the 

 coast at Kilkeel (County Down) : Phytosus spinifer, on the coast at Newcastle 

 (County Down) : Oxypioda rupicola, Rye, in moss on summit of Snowdon, and also 

 under stones on summit of Slieve Donard (County Down) : Homalota eremita, 

 clavijjes, tibialis, &c., in moss on mountain tops, in same localities as preceding : 

 ff. valida, Sharp, and nitidula, summit of Slieve Donard : Mycetoportis tenuis 

 (Sharp), not rare in moss on summit of Snowdon : Staphylinus erythropterus, on the 

 coast of Kilkeel : Anthophagus alpinus, ou summit of Slieve Donard and Snowdon : 

 Geodromicus glolulicollis, common, and Acidota crenata, rarely, in moss on summit 

 of Snowdon : Ilomalium riparium, abundant on coast at Newcastle : Saprinus 

 maritiynus, coast, Newcastle : Cryptohypnus maritimus, Lough-side, Llanberis : 

 Hydrocyphon deflexicollis, on alders, Capel Curig : Otiorhynchus maurus, var., Slieve 

 Donard : Mesites Tardii, in mountain ash, Tollymore Park (County Down) : Chry- 

 somela cerealis (a beautiful object when crawling about in the sunshine), not un- 

 common, amongst stunted wild thyme on a slope of Snowdon, at an elevation of 

 about 2800 feet, &c. 



I believe one or two of the above species have not hitherto been recorded out 

 of Scotland. — Id. 



Prionophis reticularis, White, in England. — A specimen of this fine New 

 Zealand Longicom flew into the ba<r of the "Sliip," in the Kennington Road, on the 

 evening of the 26th inst., and was placed under a tumbler as a strange " bug " for 

 me ; when I saw it, I recognized it as one of the Prionidce, not found in Em-ope, and 

 tqjon looking over the New Zealand Longiconfe, found it to be the above insect. 



