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The Irish Naturalist 



January, 



also noted: A. dichroum, Bed.; A. apricans, Hbst. ; A. 

 hurnile, Germ. ; A. Gyllenhali, Kirby ; A. ervi, Kirby ; A. 

 viciae, Pk. ; Rhynchites niiniitus, Hbst. 



Hylastes ater, Pk. ; H. palliatus, Gyll. Inquilines in the 

 burrows of the latter species, which was very numerous in a 

 fir stump, were Ips iv-guttata, F., /. iv-punctata, Hbst., and 

 Epuraea ohsoleta, F. 



Aphodius fossor, L. ; A. depressus, Kug. ; Geotrupes 

 stercorarius, L. ; G. sylvaticus, Pz. ; Melolontha hippocastani, 

 F., one at Cloverhill, and another caught for me by the Hon. 

 Barry Maxwell at Farnham. This is the first record of 

 this species from Ulster. M. vulgaris, F., Cloverhill. 



The weather was, on the whole, cold and wet, so that 

 many of the summer species I might otherwise have found, 

 no doubt escaped observation. 



Oxford and Cambridge Club, 

 London, S.W. 



THE POST-GLACIAL LEVELS OF LOUGH NEAGH. 



BY A. W. STELFOX, M.R.I.A. 



Upon reading the very lucid account of the warping of the 

 shorelines of the Great Lakes in North America, in Mr. W. 

 B. Wright's " Quaternary Ice Age," caused by the post- 

 Glacial elevation of the north-eastern part of that countr}^ 

 it occurred to me that a similar warping of the shoreline 

 should exist in Lough Neagh. The post -Glacial elevation 

 of the N.E. of Ireland, which has left its mark in the " 25 

 feet " raised beach round our coast, must, one would think, 

 have raised the level of the outflow of Lough Neagh, and 

 have caused a corresponding submergence of the shoreline 

 towards the southern end of the lake. But a few days after 

 this thought crossed my mind, I turned up in the Proceedi^igs 

 of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club (vol. ii., series ii., p. 

 117), an abstract of a paper read on 15th November, 1881, 

 by the Rev. Canon Lett, on " Records of a former level of 

 Lough Neagh." The following quotation is taken from this 

 paper : — 



" Passing to his own observations, he stated that the 



