Insects. 1573 



Ireland was the original country in which it was observed, and the 

 discovery is due to Mr. Tardy of Dublin, who procured it from decay- 

 ed hollies at Powerscourt Waterfall in the county of Wicklow. I 

 believe / had the pleasure of first recording it as an English species, 

 having found it (Zool. 702 and 775) in considerable abundance on 

 the coasts of Devonshire and Cornwall in the summer of 1844. 



Of my other captures I record the following, not on account of 

 their rarity, but merely to give a general idea of the species which 

 are found more particularly abundant in this immediate locality. 

 Peryphus atrocaeruleus Sitona canina 



Cercyon melanocephalum Apion curtirostre 



stercorarium Loti 



Meligethes viridescens carduorum 



Micropeplus poreatus hsematodes 



Aphodius contaminatus flavipes 



Cyphon Padi Donacia cincta 

 Pini {Curtis.) Haltica Pseudacori 



Rhinusa tricolor exoleta 



Sphaerula Lythri Thyamis ochroleuca 



Nedyus Cochleariae lurida. 



Ericae Macrocnema affinis 



Phytobius velatus Blaps mortisaga 



Anoplus plantaris Tachyporus hypnorum 



Anthonomus pedicularius nitidicollis 



Otiorhynchus singularis Philonthus marginatus 

 Sitona regentsteinensis Stenus levior 

 lineata Platysthetus sulcatus 



tibialis Oxytelus depressus. 



The banks of the river Flesk are the best collecting grounds in the 

 vicinity of Killarney, and that portion of them between Flesk priory 

 and the shores of the Lower Lake I found by far the most productive. 



At Glengariffe in the county of Cork, I met with tolerable success 

 but, here, as in all the other maritime localities, the Brachelytra occu- 

 pied the largest portion of the insect community. The damp woods 

 at the head of Ban try Bay produce an abundance of the commoner 

 Geodephaga, — and I here for the first time met with Phosphuga sub- 

 rotundata, — an insect so common in many parts of Ireland, though 

 not yet recorded as an English species. The following short list 

 will give a fair idea of the few insects with which these unproductive 

 woods more particularly abound : 



