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L distincta Flor.— A braehypterous male of this rare little hemipteron was 

 captured in the woods at Sraheens Lough on Aehill Island in June : and 

 the female occurred by sweeping on the moor at Laghta near Louisburgh 

 in the month of July. These are the first recorded specimens from 

 Ireland, where it is apparently very local, as it seems unrepresented 

 amongst some hundreds of Cicadiua collected in all parts of Ireland. 

 Equally rare also in Great Britain : only one locality, Bournemouth, is 

 recorded. However, Mr. Edwards tells me he took both sexes of this 

 insect at Boydon Fen near Diss, Xorfolk, on the 21st September, 1908. 

 Abroad it is recorded from Bohemia. 1 

 L. discreta Edw. — Male taken at Mouutbrown Lough near Westport. I had 

 previously collected this species in the east of Ireland on the Laytown 

 and Portmarnock sandhills. 

 L. $]>. — Some examples of a small yellowish brown Liburnia with the apical 

 part of the elytra marked with black were taken in the "Westport district 

 and elsewhere in Ireland. It is impossible to identify these with certainty 

 until the discovery of the male insect. 

 Idiocerus confusus Flor. — Taken by Rev. W.F. Johnson and Mr. Claude Morley 

 on willow? in the patch of " scrub '" near Portlea on Clare Island. 

 Elsewhere I have taken it at Portmore, Lough Xeagh. 

 Tettigouia viridis L. — The variety arundinis Germ, occurs on Clare Island. 

 At Castlebar a rather unusual variety was noticed in which the vertex 

 of the head and the hinder two-thirds of the prothorax are black instead 

 of the usual bright green. I have also an extreme melanic form from 

 Ballycastle I Antrim ) with the elytra and most of the thorax shining black. 

 Deltocephalus Flori Fieb. — At Coolbareen Lough in the Castlebar district. 



Not previously recognized in Ireland. 

 D. distinguendus Flor. — Mr. C. Morley notes the occurrence of this species on 



Clare Island and at Louisburgh. 

 Limotettix intermedia Boh. — Taken on the bank of the Westport River, and at 

 Coolbareen Lough in the same district during July. A rare insect in 

 Great Britain ;. the only recorded locality is Loch Greenin, where it was 

 taken by Mr. Douglas as long ago as September, 1866. 

 Orthesia cataphracta Shaw. — Occurs commonly in moss throughout the 

 district, especially on the mountains, as on Croaghmore and Croagh- 

 patrick. The distribution of this curious insect is distinctly northern. 

 Mr. Xewstead in his work on British Coccids records it from Greenland. 

 Scandinavia, and northern Europe. It is widespread in Ireland and Scot- 

 laud, includingthe western Hebrides.and hasalso been found in Lancashire, 

 Denbighshire, Carnarvonshire, and on the Cotswolds near Chetenham. 

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