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eventually be found at other localities in the south-west, but it must 

 be very rare, as it is not likely that such a conspicuous insect could 

 have escaped observation in the eastern parts of Ireland. In Great 

 Britain it ranges from Kent to Lincolnshire ; and Ganglbauer records 

 it from Europe, Asia Minor, Caucasus, and southern Siberia. 



Badister bipustulatus, F. 



TJlSTER. CONNAXJGHT, LeINSTER. MtjnSTER. 



Common. 



B. unipustulatus, Bon. 



MUNSTER. 



Waterford (coll. NL). 



Taken by Mr. A. JN^eale, April, 1896. 



B. sodalis, Duft. 

 Ulster. Connatjght. 



Antrim (Colin Glen, B.). — Down (near Belfast, '85 H.). — Eos- 

 common (banks of the H. Suck, near Mount Talbot, '98 Ht. 1). — 

 Galway (Wr.). 



Rare. 



Chlaenius vestitus, Payk. 

 Ulster. Leinstee. MtrisrsTEE. 



Down (Mourne Mountains, J., coll. Tn.). — Armagh (Coney Island, 

 L. Neagh, '87 J. 2).— Westmeath (Lough Ree, '00, Ht. 1).— Dublin 

 (Dodder banks, '53 Hn. ; Ht. ; mountain streams, '92 Bn. and C). — 

 Queen's County (Abbeyleis, Bn.). — Carlow (Borris, '70 Ft.). — S. Clare 

 and Limerick (lake shores, Ht.). 



Locally common. 



C. nigricornis, F. 



Ulster. Connatjght. Leinster. Munstee. 



Donegal (south), Antrim (Rathlin to Belfast), Down, Armagh, 

 Fermanagh, Galway, Dublin (south), Clare (south). Limerick, Water- 

 ford, Cork, Kerry. 



Common on river banks and lake shores. 



C. holosericeus, F. 



Lelnstee. Munster. 

 Kildare (near Athy, '54 Ds., coll. H.). — Clare (shore of Lough 

 Derg, near Killaloe, '71 S.). — Kerry (marsh by the Sheen River, near 

 Kenmare, '98 Ht. 4). 



