260 [April, 



longulas, Corymhites quercus, and the Tar. ockropterus, Galeruca tenella, Hypera 

 Pollux, H. rumicis, and last, but not least, Dytiscus circumcinctus. I was very pleased 

 to get this specimen, which was a fine $ , as I had long expected to meet with it 

 here, and had been disappointed at its non-appearance. Lowry's Lough produced a 

 Mycetoporus which is, I think, annularis, Trogophlozus arcuatus, and one example of 

 Gymnetron villosulum. June is mostly a productive month at Lowry's Lough, but 

 the Water Commissioners, imagining that we were to have a water famine, had taken 

 such care of the supplies that the Lough was full to the brim at a time when it is 

 usually half empty. A few Pelophila and one or two Blethisa only were to be got, 

 but sweeping the herbage and some low-growing willows produced Crepidodera 

 aurata, C. helxines (one) and Galeruca lineola. Under stones were Staphylinus 

 erythropterus and Philonthus quisquiliarius v. dimidiatus. 



The water net brought me Ccelambus 5-lineatus, as usual ad lib. (C. versicolor 

 evidently objects to Armagh water), and C. 9-lineatus. This last I get at a particular 

 spot at the margin of Lowry's Lough where the bottom is gravelly and stony. It 

 seems to keep down amongst the stones altogether, only leaving the bottom in order 

 to renew its stock of air. I found the best plan was to stand quiet and watch for one 

 to move from one stone to another or come to the surface, and then in with the net 

 as fast as possible. 



By sweeping in the Mullinures I took Priobium castaneum and Balaninus 

 brassica. 



On the 27th I made an excursion to Lough Neagh, stopping, as usual, at 

 Churchill, where I got Adimonia suturalis and Rhynchites betulce. At Lough Neagh 

 I took Erirhinus cethiops by sweeping herbage on the sides of drains. As Derry- 

 warragh was tenanted by a bull of unknown fierceness, and what a boy obligingly 

 informed me was a " sticking cow," Mrs. Johnson and I thought it prudent to beat 

 a retreat. We were then rowed over to Coney Island, where I took Pelophila 

 borealis, Chlcenius vestitus, C. nigricornis, Orechtochihis villosus, which I disturbed 

 from roots of plants at the water's edge, Philhydrus coarctatus, Philonthus quisqui- 

 liarius v. dimidiatus, Aphthona lutescens and Nanophyes lythri. Eain unfortunately 

 came on so heavily that I was obliged to leave off collecting, otherwise my list would 

 probably have been longer. 



July and the first few days of August I spent at Carlingford, and I have 

 recorded my captures (p. 139). 



August and September were almost blank, nothing new turning up except 

 Crepidodera salicarice. 



In October I was much pleased at getting a specimen of the handsome Donacia 

 dentipes in moss from the margin of a little lake called Drummond, while in moss 

 from the Mullinures I got Cassida obsoleta, and at Loughnashade, a small lake close 

 to the site of the ancient Emania, I took JSvcesthetus Iceviusculus. 



Moss in November brought me, besides a host of the commoner kinds, 

 Tachyporus brtmneus, Philonthus proximus, Kr. (succicola, Thorns.), Xantholinus 

 longiventris, Sunius intermedius, Stenus declaratus, Euplectus ambiguus, Scymnus 

 testaceus, Mots. {Mulsanti, Wat.), v. limbatus, Steph. of S. suturalis, Thunb. 

 {discoideus, 111.), Thy amis obliterata, T. lurida and T. atriceps. 



In December the beetles got their Christmas holidays as I was too busy with 

 other tilings to interfere with them at all. Last month I did my best to make up for 



