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have brought them home, as I did. On April 20th I visited Caimwood, 

 in the afternoon it came on to rain, and in walking through the wood 

 I picked up a handful or two of dried leaves and thrust them in my 

 pocket to keep other things steady. On my arrival home, very wet, 

 I emptied the contents of my pockets on to a table in my study ; that 

 night my daughter arrived from London, and brought home a young 

 growing palm in a pot, and placed it on the same table ; next day I 

 saw these two ants running about over the old oak leaves. I secured 

 them and mounted them, and not being able to recognise them, I sent 

 them to Mr. E. Saunders as a species captured in Cannwood ; he, 

 however, identified them as above.. I have no doubt they were brought 

 home with the palm, which was purchased the same day from Messrs. 

 Ponsford and Son, 451a, Brixton Road, S.W. 



Stonehouse, Plymouth : 



May \Wi, 1895. 



OTIORRHYNCHUS AUROPUNCTATUS, GYLL., AN ADDITION TO 

 THE BRITISH LIST. 



BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



Mr. Halbert, of the Science and Art Museum, Dublin, re- 

 cently sent me some specimens {^ ?) of an Otiorrhijnchiis from 

 Ireland which he could not satisfactorily identify. The insect in 

 question is referable to 0. auropunctatus, Gyll., an addition to the 

 British list. Mr. Halbert informs me that it is locally common near 

 Dublin, principally on the coast in the Counties of Dublin, ^leath, 

 and Louth, and that he had quite recently taken some specimens at 

 Portmarnock. He states that he had found it in moss, and by beating 

 hedges and trees, and also by sweeping It seems an extraordinary 

 fact that 80 conspicuous an insect has not been noticed in Ireland 

 before. The species had been named for him some time ago as O. 

 maurus, Gyll., which has been recorded from Co. Down, Ireland, by 

 myself, from an example taken on Slieve Donard in 1875.* 



0. auropunctatus, Gy\\.,vi\i.\c\i includes O./ossor and 0. rujlpes. 

 Boh., according to Stierlin (Rev. der Europ. Otiorrhynchus-Arten, 

 p. 89), is a common species in the Pyrenees, and occurs also in Spain 

 and in the Auvergne, France. It has been taken in abundance by Dr. 

 Sharp and myself at Yernet, in the Pyrenecs-oricntalcs, at elevations 

 between 2000 and 7000 feet. O. auropunctatus somewhat resembles O. 



• cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., xii, p. 82. 



