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Wicklow, Kilkenny, Wexford, Clare, Limerick, Waterford, Cork, 

 Kerry (Yalentia, &c,). 



Common in suitable localities. 



Sphseridium scarabaeoides, P. 



TJlSTEE. CONNATJGHT. LeINSTEK. MtJNSTBB. 



Common. 



S. bipustulatum, F. 



Ulster, Leestsxee. 



Donegal (Foyle dist., '00 B.). — Antrim and Down (Cushendun, 

 '00 J. 2 ; Lagan Canal, B.).— Armagh ('92 J. 4).— Dublin (Carrick- 

 mines, C). 



Not common. The variety marffinatum F. has been recorded from 

 Down (Holywood, '92 Pt. and Dn. ; Strandtown, '00 J. 2). Armagh 

 ('00 J. 2). Dublin ('54 Hn.). Queen's County ('00 Bn.). 



Cercyon littoralis, Gyll. 

 Ulster. Connaught. Leinster. Munster. 

 Common. A very marked coloiu'- variety of this species — with 

 yellow elytra and a black spot on the posterior third close to the 

 suture (var. hinotatum, Steph.) — occurs in many localities. We have 

 examples of it from the coasts of Donegal, Sligo (abundant), Mayo 

 (Achill), Galway, and Meath (Laytown). 



C. depressus, Steph. 

 Ulster. Coni^taught. Leinster. Munster, 

 Antrim (Ballycastle, Cs.). ^Armagh (Mullinure, '92 J. 4). — Sligo 

 (Enniscrone, J.). — Dublin (Baldoyle, ^^ith littoralis, Fg. MS., '54 Hn.). 

 — Cork (Grlandore, Ht.). — Kerry (Dingle, Ht. ; Carragh Creek, '55 Hn. 

 2). — " C. depressum occurs on most of our sea-coasts along with C. 

 littorale, but more sparingly, under seaweed drying on the sands. It 

 was but lately that Mr. Haliday had observed its more peculiar habitat 

 to be on open shingly shores, where it might be found abundantly 

 on the Laminarim cast up by the sea — unmixed with G. littorale''^ 

 i^bb H. 1). 



C. hsemorrhous, Gryll. 



Ulster. Leinster. 



Donegal (Foyle dist., '00 B. ; Buncrana, Wr.). — Antrim (Glen- 

 gormly Ht. coll. B.).— Armagh ('87 J. 2).— Dublin (Roebuck, '54 Hn. ; 

 Ballsbridge, Fg. MS.). 



Not common. 



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