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HUMIPTEEA IN THE NOETH OF IRELAND. 

 BY THE EEV. W. S. JOHNSON, M.A., F.E.S. 



While collecting Ooleoptera I have picked up such Hemiptera as 

 I happened to meet with. These have been identified for me by the 

 kindly aid of Messrs. J. "W. Douglas and E, Saunders. It has been 

 suggested to me that a list of these captures might be of some interest, 

 and hence this effusion. Of the localities mentioned, Bundoran and 

 Ardara are in Donegal, Carlingford and Greenore in Louth, Holywood 

 in Down. These are on or near the sea coast. Of the others, which 

 are inland, Beleek is in Fermanagh, Broughshane in Antrim, and 

 Kildress near Cookstown in Tyrone. Newtown Hamilton is about 12 

 miles S., Churchill 10 miles, Loughgall 4^ miles, and Clonmacate and 

 Maghery 14 miles N. of Armagh, and all in this County. The last 

 two are on the shores of Lough Neagh. Coney Island is in Lough 

 Neagh, opposite Maghery, and about half a mile from the nearest 

 shore. 



I have followed the nomenclature and arrangement of the Cata- 

 logue of Messrs. Saunders and Edwards, and I have given such notes 

 of the scarcity or abundance of species as my limited knowledge 



admits of. 



HETEEOPTERA. 



Tropicoris rujipes, Lin., Armagh, Loughgall, fairly common. 



Acanthosoma hcemorrhoidale, Lin., Armagh, one specimen. A. dentatum, De 

 Qt., Armagh. A. interstincfuni, Lin., Armagh, Churchill, pretty common. 



Nysius thy mi, Wolff, Bundoran. 



Stygnus rusticus, Fall., Armagh, not common. S. pedestris, Fall., Armagh, 

 common. S. arenarius, Hahn, Armagh, pretty common. 



Drymus sylvaticus, Fab., Armagh, Holywood, Newtown Hamilton, common. 



Scolopostethus affinis, SchilL, Armagh. <S. neglectus, Edw., Carlingford. S. 

 decoratus, Hahn, Carlingford, Newtown Hamilton. 



Orthostira hrunnea, Grerm., Armagh, Kildress, in moss, not common. O. cervina, 

 Germ., Armagh, one specimen. O. parvula, Fall., Armagh, Newtown Hamilton, in 

 moss, pretty common. 



Monanthia cardui, Lin., Armagh, sweeping, rare. 



Hydrometra stagnoruni, Lin., Armagh. 



Microvelia pygmaea, Duf., Armagh, one specimen, in moss. 



Velia currens, Fab., Armagh, Newtown Hamilton, Ardara, Lough Neagh on 

 shore of Coney Island. At Newtown Hamilton, it was in a boggy pond ; at Ardara 

 in a disused quarry ; and in neither of these cases was there an outlet, though in 

 wet weather the rise of water would give one. At Lough Neagh the specimens 

 were round Coney Island, where there is no current or moTement more than that 

 caused by the wind. 



