1570 Insects, 



my late friend George Samouelle, in the New Forest, and since taken in the same 

 place by our very worthy friend and excellent entomologist, J. C. Dale, Esq., and as 

 there is no bot-fly known in this country that we do not fully understand in all its states, 

 so it brings us to the all but absolute proof that it is no other than the (Estrus pictus, 

 so called by Curtis in his excellent ' British Entomology,' and by the continental na- 

 turalists. This larva, with others, at different times was received by me by the kind 

 aid of my worthy friend John Bolt, of Lyndhurst, assisted by the kindly interference 

 also of the present forest-keeper and ranger, who desired any larvse found in the killed 

 venison to be brought to him. Any one desirous of seeing a good representation or fi- 

 gure of this species may consult my * Treatise ' on this genus, pi. 1, fig. 40, with nearly 

 or quite all the other members in their respective changes of this truly remarkable fa- 

 mily. — Bracy Clark ; 7, Taunton Place, Regent's Park. 



Note on the Coleoptera of the South of Ireland. By T. Vernon 

 Wollaston, Esq., B.A., F.C.P.S. 



Having been requested to draw up a notice of my last year's Ento- 

 mological campaign in the South of Ireland, it is not without reluc- 

 tance that I do so, inasmuch as there were circumstances present 

 which render the season particularly unfavourable to the Entomolo- 

 gist. Six weeks of uninterrupted rain, and that too in a mountainous 

 country where the floods quickly rise and carry all before them, had 

 destroyed the superabundant life which the early spring had fostered, 

 and when I arrived in Ireland on the 10th of August, the summer 

 was too far advanced for me to gain, even by the hardest work, more 

 than a rough and general outline of the Coleoptera of this interesting 

 district. Still, having devoted all that remained of the season to my 

 favourite pursuit, and having had opportunities of visiting, for the sole 

 purpose of collecting, many remote parts of Kerry and Cork, 1 

 register the following observations in the full assurance that every 

 drop which is added to the sea of knowledge, brings with it its own 

 amount of utility, which, although it be from its smallness, inappre- 

 ciable in itself, is nevertheless not without its value when mixed up 

 in the general mass. 



And, to commence, I ought to state ..that my first impression (on 

 which I would lay the greatest stress) was twofold, — viz, the extraor- 

 dinary scarcity of insects in general to that I had been accostumed 

 to observe in England; and the large preponderance which the water 

 species everywhere bore, in point of numbers, over the land ones. 

 Whether, in one broad view, these facts arc to be accounted for by 



