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The weevils may then be seen closelj congi'egatcd around the edges of the leaves, and 

 busily engaged in feeding ; whereas, during the daytime, as far as regards my own 

 experience, they feed in a very fitful and irregular manner, spending most of their 

 time in basking in the sun, or wandering aimlessly about their food-plants, and a 

 large number pass the hours of daylight in concealment. This may be proved by the 

 simple experiment of firmly treading a small area of ground in the infested spots, 

 and then watching carefully for results, which will speedily manifest themselves in 

 the appearance of a number of the buried weevils, whose alarm is aroused by the 

 unceremonious treatment to which they have been subjected. After dark, however, 

 I have not found this experiment to answer, and believe that all the weevils ascend 

 to the surface shortly after dusk. — Theodore Wood, St. Peter's, Kent : March, 1887. 



Pelophila boreaUs : abnormal tarsi. — Some months ago Mr. Fowler called 

 attention to a malformation of the left posterior tarsus in two specimens of Pelophila 

 borealis received by him from the Rev. W. F. Johnson, of Armagh {cf. Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., xxii, 138). Among a long series just to hand from the same gentleman I find 

 a still more singular instance of deformity, the specimen in question having not only 

 the posterior tarsus, but all three tarsi upon the right side greatly malformed. 



The anterior tarsus apparently consists of only three joints, the two basal ones 

 being slightly swollen, but not nearly to the same degree as those belonging to the 

 corresponding limb (the specimen, like Mr. Fowler's, is a male). Of the two missing 

 joints I can find no trace whatever, but the terminal joint is of normal size, and 

 bears fully developed claws. In the intermediate tarsus four joints are present, all 

 of a very much abbreviated character. The claws, however, are of the ordinary 

 dimensions. The posterior tarsus is unfortunately broken, but of the three very 

 small joints which remain, the second is strongly transverse and the third almost 

 cordate. These three together scai'cely exceed in length the first joint alone of the 

 corresponding foot. The terminal spines of the tibia are also much abbreviated. 



In some fifty specimens now before me I can find nothing at all similar, the only 

 deformity of any kind being a slight contraction of one of the joints in the posterior 

 tarsus of a male specimen.— Id. : May 1th, 1887. 



Adephaga in the Armagh district. — In addition to those already communicated 

 by me to the Rev. W. W. Fowler as occurring here, I have taken the following : — 

 Leistus fulvibarbis, scarce ; Nebria Gyllenhali, scarce ; Elaphrtis riparius, very 

 common; Badister bi^rtistulatus, Harpalus rufibarbis, and H. latiis, common; 

 Pterostichus versicolor, scarce ; P. strenuus, P. diligens, and P. vernalis, all plentiful ; 

 Amara ovata, A. curta, and A. trivialis ; Priatonychus terricola, several in an out- 

 house ; Anchomenus maryinatus, very plentiful on edges of loughs ; A. viduus, A. 

 micans, rare ; A. gracilis, doubtful, as I have not a type ; Bembidium tibiale, one 

 specimen ; B. affine, rare ; B. bruxellense and B. flammulatum, tolerably plentiful ; 

 B.fumigatum and B. Clarkii, rare; Trechus minutits and var. ohtusus, both plenti- 

 ful ; Dromius linearis, D. meridionalis, and D. melanocephalus, tolerably common, 

 the specimens of the last which I have taken appear to belong to Stephens' var. 

 Scutellaria ; Ilaliplus fulvus, not plentiful ; Notertts sparsus, scarce ; Laccophilus 

 obscurus, Ccelambus versicolor, Schall. {reticulutus, F.), C. novemlineatus, and Dero- 

 nectes assimilis, all plentiful at Lowry's Lougli ; Hydroporus lepidus, II. nigrila, H. 



