Johnson and Halbert — A List of the Beetles of Ireland. 541 



Devonshire and tlie west of Scotland (Clyde and Axgyle distiicts). 

 An interesting fact in the Irish range of some of these beetles is that 

 they reverse what has heen noted in the two preceding groups — they 

 are confined to the eastern coast and absent from the west. This is the 

 more remarkable as the Irish plants connected with the same Eiu-opean 

 area are found exclusively in the south and west. The weevil Otior- 

 rkynchus auropunctatus is an example. This insect is found in the 

 east from Wicklow to Louth, and occurs as far north as Londonderry. 

 Abroad it inhabits the Pp'enees and Auvergne. The ground-beetle 

 Nelria complanata fui'nishes another example. It has been found in 

 numbers on the coasts of Wicklow and AYexford, but it is quite 

 unknown in the west of Ireland, and it is hardly possible that so 

 conspicuous an insect could have been overlooked. The number of 

 these south-western Eiu'opean species recorded from Ireland is at 

 present not large, but we have no doubt that when the south of Ireland 

 has been thoroughly investigated many more species of this interest- 

 ing group will be brought to light. 



Certain species, undoubtedly, owe their occui'rence in this country to 

 human agency,' and deserve passing notice, though constituting — from 

 a faunistic standpoint — an unimportant element in our fauna. They 

 may be divided into two sections — those which have been introduced 

 in recent times and have established themselves here, e.g., Bermeste^ 

 lardarius and Calandra granaria — such species are rarely found in the 

 open country, being almost exclusively attached to the vicinity of 

 towns and warehouses. As examples of the other class of introduced 

 species may be mentioned Calosoma s>/copha.nta and Acanthocimis cedilis, 

 or species of which only one or two undoubtedly imported specimens 

 have been found in this country, most of these are insects belonging 

 to the family Ceranibycida that have been brought over in various 

 kinds of timber. 



In view of the general agreement amongst botanists that the 

 primaeval Scotch Pir of Ireland was extirpated, and that our present 

 woods of this species are the results of recent plantings, there is good 

 ground for the belief that such pine-feeding species as Hylohius aiietis 

 and Myelophilus piniperda have at least been reintroduced into their 

 present Irish stations. It is noticeable also that many pine insects, 

 occurring chiefly in northern Britain, have not been found in this 

 country. 



^ In our opinion not more than atout forty species in the following list have 

 been introduced. 



