34 [ February, 



Between this date and June 7th I picked up a few Micros, com- 

 prising Micropteryx caltheUa, Eupoecilia angustana, Pyrodes Bhediana, 

 Ornix angliceUa,Elacliista rufocinerea, and Chrysoclisiajiavicaput. The 

 remainder of June I was on the sick list, and July I spent in Donegal. 

 August was most unfavourable to Lepidoptera, and my captures were 

 few. Mrs. Johnson, however, managed to take a nice specimen of 

 Apamea ophiogramma in MuUinure one evening ; this species has not 

 previously occurred here. I also captured a nice red var. of Leucania 

 pall ens. 



On August 25th I went over to Loughgilly, where I captured 

 Argyrotoza Conwayana and Arqyrestliia semitestaceella. On the lake 

 were numbers of Gyrinus marinii,s and Gerris argentatus. By beating 

 some trees I took Pliytocoris filics. 



A few days afterwards I walked over to Richhill, where I took 

 Adalia ohliterata on fir trees. On my way I found a large number of 

 Phratora vitellines feeding on a willow tree, of which they were 

 making sad havoc. The only other capture worth recording w^as the 

 Hernipteron Pliytocoris ulmi, w^hich I got by beating at Eichhill. 



On September 8th, as ali*eady recoi'ded, I took a fine (^ Orgyia 

 mitiqua, and in the same locality on a subsequent day Peronea varie- 

 qana, P. perplexana, P. aspersana, P. Schalleriana, and Teras con- 

 taminana. None of these w^ere at all in the usual numbers. 



On September 19th I took a trip dow^n to Lough Neagh, stopping 

 for a short time at Churchhill. On the bog at the latter place I took, 

 by sweeping the heather, &c., Quediiis molocliinus, Stenus impressus, 

 S. similis, Coccinella Meroglypliica, Chilocorus hipustulatus, Haltica 

 palustris (I think), LocMncea suturalis in numbers, also the Hemiptera, 

 Tropicoris rufipes and Scolopostethus decoratus. Lepidoptera were con- 

 spicuous by their absence. 



Leaving Churchhill we drove on down to Maghery. Here our 

 great object was the capture of Dyschirius obscurus, and accordingly 

 Mrs. Johnson and myself were soon down on our hands and knees on 

 the sand. Bledius suhterraneus was pretty plentiful, but we seemed 

 about to be disappointed in our hopes of Dyschirius, when Mrs. 

 Johnson announced the capture of one, and shortly afterwards her 

 efforts w^ere rewarded by a second specimen, but more we could not 

 get. Besides those mentioned we took a single specimen of Anisotoma 

 nigrita. A few days later we went over to Tynan, partly on a botani- 

 cal quest, but Mrs. Johnson discovered a very large colony of Bledius 

 fracticornis on the canal bank, and we had quite an exciting time 

 picking them out of their burrows. Along with them were a few 

 Bemhidium femoratum . 



