(Proceedings Belfast Naturalists' Field Club. —Appendix 1883-1884.^ 



NOTES ON IRISH COLEOPTERA, 



By A. L. HALIDAY, F.L.S. 



Edited by S. A. STEWART, Fellow of Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 



< 7fi' HE following list has been prepared from manuscript notes made by the 

 ^r late A. L. Haliday, F.L.S. The MS. has been in the possession of 

 the Editor for many years, and as a record of work done by one, who, in his 

 day, ranked amongst the foremost of British entomologists, it has seemed a duty 

 to give it to the public. 



Mr. Haliday was one of an illustrious band of naturalists whose love for 

 scientific research, and success in the pursuit, conferred distinction on the town 

 of Belfast during the earlier portion of the present century. It is matter for 

 regret that, with respect to the labours of these local pioneers of science, so 

 little has been put upon record, and that their personal history is, in some cases, 

 imperfectly known to their successors. "We do know, however, that they were 

 single-minded lovers of Nature, anxious only for a better knowledge of her 

 ways, and careless as to whether their names should, in all cases, be associated 

 with the discoveries they made. 



Many of the species in the following enumeration have been noted, as Irish, 

 in Curtis' s Illustrations of British Entomology, but the greater part would 

 seem to have remained unpublished. 



The nomenclature is that of the MS., without alteration, but in such cases as 

 where an insect appears under a different name in Stephens' British Entomology, 

 the Editor has appended the latter as a synonym. 



Mr. Haliday had three distinct marks, which, placed against the names of the 

 species in a classified list, constituted his method of recording the localities of his 

 captures. The first mark signified "near Belfast" ; the second, "elsewhere in 

 Ireland" ; the third, "English." No further details are given. As we are 

 not concerned with the English distribution, the two first only are reproduced 

 here. These notes extend to Hymenoptera, and other groups, but being, as 

 regards these, incomplete, and lacking localities are consequently omitted. 



