2l6 Guide to Belfast. 



been found in the district. Micronympha pumilio for 

 example, a southern dragonfly, very scarce in Great Britain, 

 has occurred at Belfast and nowhere else in Ireland. The 

 Caddis-fly, Stenophylax concentricus, together with other com- 

 moner species, has been taken at night, flitting around the 

 Belfast street lamps. Crtiruvcia irrorata and Bercea 7naurus 

 are among the more interesting Caddis-flies recorded from 

 Colin Glen. 



G. H. C. 

 Orthoptera. 



A few of the commoner British Orthoptera are known to 

 occur in the district, but the discovery in 1900 of a specimen 

 of the Mole-cricket {Curtilla gryllotalpd) in an old buried 

 canoe near Toome, at the northern end of Lough Neagh is 

 most remarkable. No other Irish locality for this con- 

 spicuous species is known, and it is puzzling to find an 

 insect so characteristically southern in Great Britain 

 apparently indigenous in Ulster. 



G. H. C. 



Aptera. 



This obscure but highly interesting group of insects, 

 ■which, neglected for many years by entomologists, is now 

 attracting a good deal of attention, found a pioneer student 

 early in the last century in Robert Templeton of Belfast. 

 His classical memoir,^ in which three species of Thysanura 

 and fourteen (in reality twelve) of CoUembola are enumer- 

 ated, was founded almost entirely on specimens procured 

 an his own grounds at Cranmore, now included in the city 

 -of Belfast. It may be useful to note the species described 

 by Templeton : they were — Thysanura : Machilus marititna, 

 Lenb. ; M. polypoda (Lina.) ; Lepisma saccharina, Lina. 

 CoUembola: Smynihums viridis (L.); S. fuscus (L.), 

 { = atra, Tempi.); Papirius minutiis (Fab.), { = S. signata, 

 Tempi.); Orchesella cinda (L.), (=6>. cinda ■{■ O. filicornis 



1 R. Templeton.— Thysanurae Hibernicas, or descriptions of such 

 species of Spring-tailed Insects (Podura and Lepisma, Lina.) as have been 

 observed in Ireland, with Introductory Observations upon the Order by 

 J. D. Westwood. Trans. Ent. Soc, vol. i, 1S34, pp. 89-98. 



