30 8 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



n ., ,. v . [' Both of these insects are common in the 



Oncognathus bmotatus l<ab. — \ 



Plesiocoris rugicollis Fall.- W6St f ^^ they aie rarer > hoWever > 



\ towards the east. 



Lygus lucorum Mey. — Taken by Mr. Morley on Clare Island and at Louisburgh. 



Paeciloscytus unifasciatus Fab. — Castlebar Lough and in the Westport 

 demesne. Eather a local species, occurring chiefly in the west of 

 Ireland. I have usually taken it by sweeping herbage on lake margins, 

 as in Limerick (Lough Gur) and South Clare. The only locality known 

 for it in the east is in the Belfast district (Lagan Canal), where it was 

 taken by Mr. C. W. Buckle. 



Dicyphus epilobii Beut. — In the Westport demesne. Although this insect has 

 not been definitely recorded from Ireland, it is probably widespread, as 

 I have taken it several times in the Dublin district (Tibradden, Tallaght, 

 Donabate, and Santry). 



D. pallidicomis Fieb. — Clare Island and Louisburgh ; common everywhere on 

 Digitalis (C. Morley). The range of this species in Ireland is not known, 

 though probably it will be found to occur wherever its food-plant, the 

 Common Foxglove, is abundant. Mr. Donisthorpe found it in north 

 Kerry. Widespread in Great Britain. 



Globiceps dispar Boh. — A few specimens taken by sweeping in meadows in 

 Westport demesne. Not common in Ireland. 



Notonecta glauca L. var. furcata Fab. — Common in Creggan Lough and other 

 small lakes on Clare Island ; also at Louisburgh and Westport. A 

 melanic variety, which is probably common throughout the district. It 

 has been found in various localities in Donegal (Foyle district, Bun- 

 doran, &c), at Bangor (Co. Down), Kenmare, and it is the prevalent 

 form in Ballyknockan bog in Co. Wicklow. 



The allied Plea was not found ; it occurs, however, in Cregduff Lough, 

 near Eoundstone, outside the limits of the Clare Island district. 



Corixa German Fieb.— A single example of this local species occurred in a 

 small lake in north-east Achill during June. As has been pointed out 

 by Mr. Kirkaldy, 1 the Corixa carinata of the Saunders " Catalogue " 

 comprises two species, which may be separated by the shape of the 

 frontal fovea and of the strigil in the male. The insect here recorded is 

 a male, and is undoubtedly to be referred to the species he calls 

 C. German Fieb. Other localities for the species are Lough Gill, where 

 it occurred in small pools on the lake-shore in July, Foyle district in 

 March (C. W. Buckle), and at Ardara (W. F. Johnson). The insect 

 recorded under the name of G. carinata, from Newcastle, Co. Down, in 



1 Kircaldv, G. W. On the specific distinctness of Coiixa carinata and C. Germari, &c. 

 "Entomologist," xaxi, 1898, p. 249. 



