31 2 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



A widespread species both in Ireland and Great Britain, and ranging 

 over most of the Palaearetic Eegion (Europe, North Africa, North and West 

 Asia). 



Stenobothrus (Omocestus) viridums (Linn.). 



Clare Island (Grirnshaw), July, 1910. 



Belclare, Westport, July, 1910 ; Westport Demesne, July, 1911 

 (Halbertj. 



Numerous examples of this common British and Irish grasshopper were 

 taken both on the island and the mainland. It is a species of northern 

 distribution, ranging all over Scotland (Evans), and inhabiting, on the 

 Continent, northern and central Europe, and the mountains of northern Spain, 

 Siberia, and Mongolia (Burr). 



Stenobothrus (Stauroderus) bieolor (Charp.). 



Clare Island (Grirnshaw), July, 1910. 



Westport demesne and Mount Brown Lough (Halbert), July, 1911. 



This species is evidently common in the district, though less abundant 

 than .s'. viridvlus. It is widespread in Great Britain and Ireland, and has an 

 enormous range over the Palaearetic Begion — eastward to Japan, and 

 southward to North Africa and Burma. 



Mecostethus grossus (Linn.). 



Doolough, Co. Mayo (H. Bonaparte Wyse). 



This large and handsome Grasshopper lias long been known as a feature 

 of the fauna of Connemara (Carpenter;, and it is of interest to record it from 

 a station further to the north. It has been found also in Co. Kerry, but never 

 in the midlands or east of Ireland. Its British and Continental distribution 

 is very puzzling. In England its headquarters appear to be the Channel 

 district (Dorset, Hants, Surrey) and the eastern feuland country (Huntingdon- 

 shire and Cambridgeshire). There seems to be only one old and doubtful 

 record for Scotland. Abroad, on the other hand, the species seems distinctly 

 northern, as it ranges all over northern and central Europe from Lapland to 

 the Alps and Balkans, extending also into Siberia, northern Spain and 

 Portugal, and northern Italy. 



FORFICULIDAE. 



Forficula auricularia, Linn. 

 Clare Island and throughout the district. Common everywhere. 

 Miss E. K. Saunders, when on Clare Island in August, 1909, collected 

 over 100 Earwigs, which have been forwarded to Mr. H. H. Brindley, 



