46 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



error, as in the same work (page 12) the author remarks, concerning L. 

 cantellata, " n'a pas encore ete observee en Ecosse ni en Irlande." Haliday 

 makes no mention of the insect in his MS. Catalogue. The record in the 

 " Neuropterous Fauna of Ireland " must therefore be deleted. 



Distribution. — According to Mr. McLaehlan, the British range of this 

 species is confined to the southern half of England. On the Continent it 

 ranges from Scandinavia to Russia and Spain, occuriing also in northern 

 Africa.] 



Somatochlora arctica (Zett). 



MUNSTER. 



M. — Kerry (Killamey, McLaehlan ; Dinish, King). 



Very local. The following is the original record of the occurrence of this 

 northern and alpine Dragon-fly in Ireland : — " I have in my cabinet a male of 

 Curdulia ardica, Zetterstedt, taken at Killamey in 1862 by Mr. Biichall, and 

 presented to me by that gentleman. This Dragon-fly had hitherto only been 

 found in one British locality, Eannoch, Perthsliire (see note on distribution). 

 Being undoubtedly a northern species, one would scarcely have suspected its 

 occurrence in the south-west of Ireland ; but Mr. Birchall remarks that he 

 has found Cocnonympha darus and Hadena red Uinta at the same place, 

 neither of which occurs in the southern parts of England. De Selys-Long- 

 champs mentions that it has been taken on an elevated heath near Arlon 

 in Belgium, a locality still further south " (McLaehlan, Entom. Montldy Mag., 

 i., p. 76, 1864-5). There are two Irish specimens of this species in the Dale 

 Collection at Oxford ; one of these is labelled " Killamey " {Lucas in Entom. 

 Monthly Mag.. (2) xix., p. 201, 1908). 



Distribution. — Frequents boggy heaths and swamps in the highlands of 

 Perthshire and Inverness (Rannoch, Strathglass, and Breadalbane). Abroad 

 it is local in the mountain regions of northern and central Europe, ranging 

 from Lapland to France (Ardennes). Also reported from the Caucasus and 

 Siberia {De Selys, 1887). Kamtschatka (His). 



[Cordulia acnea (L). 



" Cordulia aenta — Killamey" {Hehj in letter to Haliday in 1838, fde 

 Holiday SIS.). 



" Ireland ? — Towards the northern lakes {Holiday). I have not seen the 

 specimens. There is no doubt that a Cordulia is found there, but the species 

 has not been determined with certainty " {De Sclys, Ee\-ision of the British 

 Libellulidae, Ann. Mag. Nat, Hist., xvm., p. 222, 1846). 



These are the only available records of the occurrence of this Dragon-fly 

 in Ireland. The locality mentioned in De Selys' "RcNTsion" is e^^dently 



