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The most important among my other captures were — Agahus ungnicularis, 

 Hypocyptiis ovulum, Megacronus cingulatus, Mycetoporus splendidus, Lathrohium 

 quadratum, L. longulum, PMlonthus dimidiatus, Ph. cephalotes. Ph. puella, Acidota 

 crenata, Agathidium larigatum, Baridius T-alhum, Lithodactylus leucogaster, Tanys- 

 phyrus lemnce, Otiorhynchus ligneus, and Errihinu.<; cBthiops, of which I took a hirge 

 number in flood -rubbish in the MuUinares in April last. 



Those which I h;ive marked with an asterisk have not, as far as I know, 

 been recorded from Ireland before. — W. F. Johnson, Winder Terrace, Armagh: 

 Fehruary \st, 1890. 



Oherea oculata, L. — Some fifty years ago this beautiful and conspicuous Longi- 

 corn was not uncommon in the Isle of Ely, and the fen districts of Cambridgeshire 

 generally ; it had not, however, occurred for a great number of years in England 

 until 1883, when Dr. Lowe beat a specimen off Hippophae rhamnoides near Romney : 

 the locality is part of Romney Marshes, and Dr. Lowe writes to me as follows : — 

 " The bank I was searching was close to the sea water, and I daresay had originally 

 been made to keep off the tidal overflow ; it was covered with Hippophae rhamnoides 

 (the sea-buckthorn), which was in fine fruit, and I can positively declare that I 

 knocked the Oherea oculata off the above-named shrub." During the present 

 winter the species has been taken by a friend of Mr. J. J. Walker's in Norfolk. — 

 W. W. Fowler, Lincoln: Fehruary 3rd, 1890. 



Mycterus curculionoides, F.,from near 0.vford. — Some time ago Mr. Sidney 

 OUiff kindly sent me a specimen of Mycterus curculionoides, F., of which he says: 

 " it was, I believe, captured in the vicinity of Oxford in 1882, or thereabouts ; the 

 specimen was in a small collection of Oxfoi'd beetles given to me by Mr. M. Gunning ; 

 unfortunately, Mr. Gunning, who was unacquainted with the rarity of his capture, 

 had no recollection of the precise locality where this particular specimen was found, 

 although he had an impression that it was found on a thistle bed, but he was posi- 

 tive in his assertion that all his captures were from Oxford, and that no specimens 

 had been added from other sources." The species has long been regarded as more 

 or less doubtfully British. Stephens' record is : " Extremely rare in Britain. I 

 possess a pair that were captured near Kingsbridge by the late Mr. Cranch ; others 

 are in the collection of the British Museum, taken at the same time, in June, 1815." 

 Mr. Rye (British Beetles, p. 172) records it as once taken in England by Mr. T. V. 

 Wollaston, but gives no locality ; there is, or was, a specimen in Mr. Crotch's col- 

 lection which, perhaps, is the one referred to by Mr. Rye. 



The species very much resembles Larinus at first sight, and, like the species of 

 that genus, is clothed with a pollen-like pubescence, which is very fugitive, and is 

 renewable during life, if rubbed off. 



The genus Mycterus is, as far as outward resemblance goes, extremely closely 

 allied to the Curculionidce, with which it is further connected by the form of the 

 intermediate cox® and scutellum ; it is, however, separated from them by the hetero- 

 merous tarsi, and, to a less extent, by the filiform antennae and the buccal organs. 



The larvae probably live in the roots and stems of the Carduacem and Umbel- 

 lifercB, on which the perfect insects are found. 



The species belonging to the genus are chiefly found in the south of Europe, 



