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outings, but materially help him to breed Lepidoptera; and 

 should this paper in any way aid that object its purpose will 

 be fully served. 



N.B. — This paper was illustrated by objects and models. 



IRISH STAPHYLINID.E. 

 BfRev. W. F. Johnson, M.A., F.E.S. Read 2%th Nov., 1889. 



In my paper on the Irish Geodephaga, I remarked that 

 rather less than half of the British species had been recorded 

 from Ireland. The list of Irish Staphylinids contains an 

 even smaller proportion of the British species. Canon Fowler, 

 in his admirable work on the Coleoptera of the British 

 Islands, gives the number of species of this family on the 

 British list as upwards of 800 ; of these less than 300 have 

 been recorded from Ireland. I have in my own collection 

 Irish specimens of nearly two- thirds of these species, most of 

 which have been taken here. 



There are no materials for remarks on distribution, as 

 nearly half the records are from single localities. I have, 

 however, made out lists of these single locality records which 

 may perhaps prove interesting. 



Recorded from Armagh only: — Aleochara amiailoruni, Oxypoda 

 longiuscida^ Calodera est hi ops, Myrmedonia collaris, Alianta incana, 

 Homalota imbecilla, gyllenhali, pagana, elegantula, nigricornis, corvina, 

 atomaria, Tachyiisa umbratica, Falagria obscura, Myllceiia brevicoriiis, 

 Tachyporus hiwierosiis, transversalis, Tarhimcs laticollis, Bolitobius 

 exoletus, Mycetoporns longulns, splendidtis, Heterothops binolata, Quedius 

 fumahis, Philonthns umbratilis, cephalotes, ebeninus, ventralis, quisqui- 

 liarius, v. dimidiatus, nigrita, micans, nigritulus, Actobius cinerascens, 

 Xantholiims longiventn's, Lathrobiimi longuhun, terminatum, Sunius 

 intermedium, diversus, Evcesthetus riificapillus, Icsviuscuhis, Stenus 

 melanarius, Steph., atratulus, fuscipes, declaratus,, argus, fusci- 

 cornis, pahcsiris, binotatus, catiescefis, Rosh. {major, Rey), pallitarsis, 

 cicindeloides, Platystethus nodifrons, Oxytelus insecatus, inustus, compla- 

 natus, Trogophlisiis bilineatus, elongatiilus,foveolatus, corticinus, tenelhis^ 

 Lesteva sharpi, Acidota crenata, Lathrimceum atrocephalum, Acridia 

 inflatx, Aiithobium mimitum, Proteinus ovalis, Megarthrus denticollis, 

 depressus. 



