84 [March, 



111 the Isle of Grain : SaTpingus ceratus, several small companies, under very dry 

 loose barks on old posts, in August ; also Bledius tricornis and Dolichosoma lineare, 

 by sweeping. 



At Cliilham, Kent, on August 30tli : Cicones variegatua, a good series, under the 

 dry bark on a dead but standing beech tree ; Paromalus flaviconiis and Ccrylmi 

 ferruginewm, under bark of ash-logs ; Agaricnphagus cephalotes, Scydmcenus avyula- 

 tus, and Apternpeda glohosa, by evening sweeping. 



At Chattenden Roughs, Kent : Trachys minutus, several, basking in the sun- 

 shine on sallow leaves ; Mora ella Jasciatx, -plentitnl in the flowers of Chrysanthemum 

 leucanthemum, in July ; Helrtphorvs Mvlsanti, HydvoMuf! sirigosu.'', Colon brunneuw, 

 in numbers, and ^bdera bi/a.scia fa, by sweeping. At Chatham, in October : Uoma- 

 lium deplanatum, several, and Ceuthorhynchits tarsalis, by sweeping. 



At Mickleham, with Mr. G. C. Champion, on June Ist : Colon angulare aud 

 MoJorchus minor, one of each, the latter beaten from the blossom of Vilurnuvi 

 opidus ; Ceuthorhynchus crux, several by sweeping, apparently attached to Arahis 

 turrita; Cryptocephahis coryli and yiitidulus, the latter in abundance ; PsylUodes 

 dalcamarcB, not rare, and Corymhitp.s holosericeus, in great numbers on young birch 

 trees towards sunset, with very many of the usual Mickleham species. The smaller 

 Anisotomidce (Colenis, &c.) were individually more numerous on this occasion than 

 in the previous experience of either of us. 



At Darenth Wood, at the end of June, in company with Dr. Sharp: Acrogna- 

 thus mandihularis, one taken by my companion, as usual, among saturated dead 

 leaves almost in the water at the edge of a little swamp; Triplax Lacordairei, two 

 specimens, casually found by beating birch, and three more in a Boletus on an ash 

 stump ; Cryptocephahis fulcratus and punctiger, also on birch, the latter species being 

 common ; Harpalus punctatulus, Telephorus translucidus, Chrysomela lamina (in 

 plenty, off Ballota nigra), &c., &c. — James J. Walker, H.M.S. " Penguin," 

 Sheerness : January I6th, 1890. 



Coleoptera in the North of Ireland. — The following are additions to the Armagh 

 list of Coleoptera. Bemhidium rufescens, Alitalia rividaris, Encephalus complicans, 

 Myllcena dubia,* M. intermedia,* M. brevicornis,* Quediux futnatus,* Q. attenuafus, 

 Phllonthus umbratilis,* Ph. sordidus (Coney Island, Lough Neagh), Actobius cine- 

 rascens,* Stenus gnttula, S. brunnipes, Steph. {unicolor, Er.), Syntomium (eneum 

 (the only previous record from Ireland is Dinnish Island, Galway, Mr. J. J. Walker), 

 Homalium riparium, H. Allardi, II. ccesum,* Megarthriis affinis,* Clamlnts armadillo, 

 Necrodes littoralis (a single specimen, which flew into the back kitchen in July last), 

 Choleva agilis, C. chrysomel aides,* Afomaria badia,* A. pusilla, A. atra,Ephistemus 

 fflobosus,* E. gyrinoides,* Typhcea fuinata, Simplocaria semistriata, Crepidodera 

 rnjipes, Thyamis pusilla.* In a small bag of moss which a lady kindly brought me 

 from the Sandhills at Portrush, Co. Antrim, I got Quedius attenuatus, Othins IcBvi- 

 usculus, Steph., Orobitis cyanens, and Sitones griseus. A bag of moss from Kildress, 

 near Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, produced, along with a multitude of commoner things, 

 Notiophilus palustris, Calathtis piceus, Othius melanocephalus, and Aleochara nitida, 



Mr. W. H. Patterson, of Belfast, sent me a specimen of Oeotrupes Typhaus, 

 which he had picked up dead on the Sandhills at Newcastle, Co. Down, on April 

 2 1 St, 1889. 



