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Crepidodera (Chatcoidcs) fulvicornis Fab. (G. smaragdino Foudr.). — Clare Island, 

 Achill Island (Glendarary), and Mulranny (W. F. J.). Belclare (J. K H.). 

 Taken by beating willows in June and September. Mr. James Edwards, 

 in a paper 1 on tbis genus, gives fresh characters for separating the present 

 species from C. helixines, or aurea Geoffr., as he calls it. In the present 

 insect the thorax at the base is clearly narrower than the base of the 

 elytra, and its puncturation is very coarse, and nearly or quite as deep 

 as that in the elytral striae; but in aurea (helixin.es) the thorax at the 

 base is as wide as the base of the elytra, its puncturation feeble or 

 evanescent, very much less deep than that of the elytral striae. It seems 

 probable that all our Irish records of C. helixines will have to be referred 

 to C. fulvicornis. 



Haltica palustris Weise. — Westport (J. 1ST. H.). A few specimens taken by 

 sweeping herbage in the demesne. We are indebted to Mr. J. Edwards 

 for verifying the identification of this and the preceding species. 



Cassida nobilis L. — Westport (J. N. H.). Specimens of this pretty "Tortoise 

 Beetle " were bred from pupae found at Westport in July attached to 

 the underside of stones on a grassy part of the sea-shore. The other 

 Irish records are from Down, Louth, and Clare, so that it is very 

 local. 



Salpingus ater Payk. — Croaghpatrick (J. N. H.). Taken on the summit of 

 the mountain on a hot July day. A very rare beetle. There is but one 

 other record for Ireland, and that is Dublin (Dr. Power), while Fowler 

 (Brit. Coleoptera, vol. iv, p. 52) says : — " Of all the specimens I have 

 seen, one only appears to be related to the type S. ater, and this was 

 taken by Mr. Champion at Aviemore, Inverness-shire " ; nor can we find 

 any record of its occurrence since. 



Otiorrhynchus blandus Gyll. — Clare Island and Achill (J. N. H.). Inishbofin 

 (E. E. D.). Louisburgh, Mweelrea, and Westport, The Bills (E. LI. P. 

 and E. W.). This boreal weevil is spread all round the north, west, and 

 south coasts of Ireland, being common in suitable localities, and extending 

 to the sea-level. It is found in Scotland, where it is common, but the 

 only other recorded locality is Lapland. 



Ceuthorrhynchus cruadridens Panz. — Croaghpatrick (J. N. H.). Taken on the 

 wing on the summit in July. Very widely distributed in Ireland, and 

 displays a pencJumt for gorse. 



1 Vide " On tlie British species of Ciiajcoiiles Foiuiras," Ent. Monthly Mug., (2) xx, p. 127 

 1909. 



