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Exhibitions. 



Irish Coleoptera. — Mr. 0. E. Janson exhibited on behalf 

 of Mr. L. H. Bonaparte Wyse the following Coleoptera taken 

 by him in Ireland this year : — 



Carabus glabratus, Pk., Muckross, Killarney; Carabus granu- 

 latus, L., black var., Mangerton, Killarney; Pelophila borealis, 

 Pk., Killarney; Blethisa multipimctata, L., Muckross, Killarney; 

 Badister unipustulatus, Bon., Muckross, Killarney; Chlaenius 

 holosericeus, F., Muckross, Killarney; Harpaliis ^-punctatus, 

 Dej., var. with pitchy legs. Little Sugarloaf, Co. Wicklow; 

 Anisodactylus binotatus var. spurcaticornis, Dej., Muckross, 

 Killarney; Pterostichus oblongo-punctatus, F., Curraghmore, 

 Co. Waterford; Silpha dispar, Hbst., Muckross, Killarney; 

 Melolontha hippocastani, F., Muckross, Killarney; Gampylus 

 linearis, L., black var., Muckross, Killarney; Pogonochaerus 

 dentatus, Fourc, Curraghmore, Co. Waterford; Rhopalomesites 

 tardyi, Curt., Innisfallen, Killarney. 



Scotch Dysstroma concinnata. — Dr. Cockayne exhibited 

 a series of Dysstroma (?) concinnata, Steph., taken by Mr. R. Y. 

 Horn at Tarbert, Argyllshire, July 1915. They were at rest 

 on rocks amongst heather. For comparison D. concinnata, 

 Arran, and the two Irish specimens taken by Capt. Gwatkin- 

 Williams, R.N., on Achil Island. Also D. citrata ab. pythonis- 

 sata [immanata), Shetlands, and D. truncata, Sutherland. Also 

 a melanic aberration of D. concinnata taken by Mr. Horn on 

 Arran Island. Except the specimens recorded by Curtis from 

 Arrochar, Dumbarton, Aug. 7, 1825, none had been taken on 

 the mainland of Scotland. 



Scotch Pieris napi. — The Rev. G. Wheeler exhibited a 

 series of Pieris napi, from Kinghorn on the coast of Fife, taken 

 on August 4, 1915, the ^ (^ being remarkable for the extent 

 of the black markings, which form triangles at the end of the 

 nervures on the forewings, the $ ? for the extent of the grey 

 suffusion along the costa, inner margin and nervures of the same 

 wings. 



A NocTuiD Moth feeding on the moisture from the 

 eyes of mules. — Dr. Guy A. K. Marshall exhibited a 

 specimen of a Noctuid moth, Arcyophora longivalvis Guen. 



