jg [June, 



Coleoptera at Armagh. — This year has opened most auspiciously for me, and I 

 have been able to add several species to my Armagh list, some of which are also new 

 to the Irish list. I have been very much favoured by the weather, which has been 

 much less severe here than in England, and consequently interfered very little with 

 collecting. 



The following are additions to the Armagh list : — Notiophilus quadripunctatus , 

 N. sub.striatus, N. palustris, Calathus flavipes, Dromius quadrinotatus (new to Irish 

 list), Bembidium biguttatum, Hydroporus memnonius, H. incognitus , Falagria 

 obscura, Hypocyptus ovulum, Heer (pygmaus, Kr.), Mycetoporus splendidus (all 

 three new to Irish list), Conosoma pubescens, Acidota crenata, Lathrobium longulum, 

 Trogophloeus bilineatus, Lathrimcenm unicolor, Proteinus brevicollis, Ulster carbo- 

 narius, Mantura chrysanthemi, Thyamis brunnea, Rhizophagus dispar, Choleva 

 spadicea, Cassida viridis, Apion minimum, Ceuthorhynchus sidcicollis, Anihonomus 

 Chevrolati. My chief captures besides the above were : — Bembidium ClarJcii, 

 Anchomenus gracilis, A. viduus, A . piceus, Dromius meridionalis, Agabus unguicularis, 

 Coelambus quinquelineatus, Philonthus succicola, Quedius semiceneus, Lathrobium 

 quadratum, Silpha sinuata, Scymnus Mulsanti, Choleva morio, Rhinosimus ruficollis, 

 Anaapis frontalis, Coccinella 14-guttata, C. obliterata, and Orobitis cyaneus. This 

 last I took on the top of the Vicar's Cairn in moss ; unfortunately there was only 

 one specimen. Nearly all of these were taken in moss, which is always most 

 productive here. As regards Coelambus quinquelineatus, I find that it is most plenti- 

 ful here, while C. versicolor has not occurred at all here as yet. I had mistaken 

 light specimens of C. quinquelineatus for it. — W. F. Johnson, Winder Terrace, 

 Armagh : April llth, 1888. 



Megacronus cingulatus at Armagh. — On May 4th I took a specimen of the above 

 in the Mullinure Meadows, by shaking moss. The only other Irish record appears 

 to be from Rathkurby, Co. Waterford ; so its appearance here is interesting. — Id. : 

 May 9th, 1888. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 April 26th, 1888.— T. R. Billtjps, Esq., E.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. J. E. Pearce and J. Pearce were elected Members. 



Mr. Adye exhibited Asphalia ridens, Fb., and varieties of Taniocampa munda, 

 Esp. Mr. Lea, small specimens of Hybemia leucophcearia, Schiff., taken this year 

 at Richmond. Mr. Dobson, a specimen of Smerinthus tilice, L., with the lower part 

 of the central band of the superior wings absent. Mr. Dennis, three streaked va- 

 rieties of Spilosoma lubricipeda, Esp., and a similar variety of S. menthastri, Esp., 

 taken in his garden at Kingsland. Mr. T. R. Eillups, a living specimen of the genus 

 Pelopaus, from Honduras ; also a species of Blattidce,' Paratropes elegans, from 

 South America. Mr. J. Jenner Weir read a communication from Mr. T. D. A. 

 Coekerell, referring to his note on the origin of Gonepteryx Cleopatra and G.rhamni, 

 read at the Meeting on March 8th last, Mr. Coekerell being of opinion that G. 

 Cleopatra and G. rhamni were climatic forms of one species. Mr. Weir said, seeing 

 that G. Cleopatra and G. rhamni existed over a large part of Europe in the same 

 districts, and had a synchronous appearance in the latter part of the summer, "and 

 again aft er hibernation in the spring, he was unable to accept Mr. Cockerell's ingenious 



