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Female : From deep black, with only a slight trace of greyish touientum ; 

 ocellar triangle and orbits shining ; sides of face black and highlij polished opposite 

 base of antennae, below dull with grey tomentum. Thorax black, more highly 

 polished than in the male. Abdomen shining black, not so bluish as in the male. 

 Middle tibix with two to three postero-dorsal bristles in apical half. Hind femora 

 with five or six long antero-ventral bristles in apical half; hind tibiss with one 

 dorsal bristle at one-third from apex, two antero-dorsal bristles, one of which is 

 subapical and the other about the middle, and one antero-ventral bristle about the 

 middle. Wings hyaline, venation as in male ; calyptra clearer than in male ; 

 hal teres blackish. 



This interesting species, which has not hitherto been recognised 

 as British, was sent to me in both sexes by Dr. J. H. Wood and Mr. 

 C. W. Dale. By the former it has been taken at Ashpertou Park, 

 Shobdon Marsh, Woolhope and Stoke Wood (all, I believe, in Here- 

 fordshire) ; while the latter sent me specimens from Glanvilies 

 Wootton, Chichester and Charmouth, some of which were taken no 

 less than fifteen years ago ! The dates of capture range from May to 

 September 24th. 



{To be continued). 



Notes on Irish Coleoptcra. - While spending a holiday last June at Rosses 

 Point, Sligo, I had the pleasure of capturing four beetles which are new to the Irish 

 list. These are : Pkilonthus lepidus, G-rav., Steaus incrassatus, Er., Platystethus 

 capito, Heer, and Saprinics immimdus, Gryll. ; the first and last were captured in 

 stercore bovino, the other two crawling on the sand among herbage. There is a fine 

 stretch of sandhills at Rosses Point with a level plain behind, where were numerous 

 suitable spots for Bledius. Of this genus I obtained five species, viz., arenarius, 

 Payk. ; pallipes, G-rav., fuscipes, Rye, longulus, Er., and erraticus, Er., but none 

 were in any profusion except arenarivLs ; Dyscldrius politus, Dej., and D. glohosus, 

 Herbst, were plentiful, and I also obtained a few D. impunctipennis, Daws. Mrs. 

 Johnson came upon a couple of Tachypus pallip)es, Duft., one afternoon ; we 

 returned to the spot sevei-al times before we really got at them, and then we found 

 plenty, both there, t.e., on the headland at Drumcliff Bay, and in a depression among 

 the sandhills. I think they were only emerging, for many of those taken were 

 somewhat immature. They were not easy to detect, from their habit of sitting quite 

 still beside a stone under a plant. I took a single example of Xantholinus crihri- 

 pennis, Fauvel, in stercore bovi^io ; in fact Staphylinids were mostly thus met with ; 

 seaweed was a complete failure. Aphodii were pretty plentiful, but as on a former 

 occasion I could only get one of A. fastens, ¥., while A. pusillus, Herbst, was plenti- 

 ful, and I got a good supply of them ; of the others I need only mention A. scybala- 

 rius, F., and A. depressus, Kug. Longitarsus lasvis, Duft., was taken in some 

 numbers by sweeping among ragwort, &c. Mrs. Johnson took a specimen of 

 Nacerdes melannra, Schmidt, but as she supposed it to be merely an extra-sized 

 Telephorus fulvus, she neglected to secure more examples. 



