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example thus coloured. Apparently, however, specimens 

 with obscured yellow margins are not uncommon in Ireland. 

 The writer of these notes found, in the Mullingar and Ennis- 

 corthy districts, forms in which the pale margins are re- 

 placed by a dark purple colour. Dr. G. W. Nicholson' 

 records some rare beetles amongst which are a few Irish 

 species, most of these have already been mentioned in his 

 valuable papers in the Irish Naturalist. 



Mr. W. E. Sharp* wTites of a few species of the genus 

 Lathrobmm and refers to the occurrence in Ireland of the 

 variety atrip alpe Scriba of L. terminatum. In this country 

 it is the prevalent form, knowTi by the unspotted wing-cases 

 and darker-coloured legs. It is usually recorded under the 

 name of variety immaculatuni Fowler. 



The following beetles are now to be added to the known 

 Irish fauna : — Helophorus ytenensis, an aquatic species 

 recently described by Dr. Sharp, specimens were found in 

 the North of Ireland by Mr. Balfour Browne, they are 

 " rather larger and more robust than those found here, and 

 the legs and palpi are a little shorter." It may be knov/n 

 from the alhed species by its broad, abbreviated wings. 

 Anisotoma carta Fairm. a rare British species of which a 

 single specimen was taken by Rev. W. F. Johnson^ on Bent- 

 grass at Mullaghmore on the southern side of Donegal Bay 

 (Co. Sligo) ; a.nd Hornoloia malleus,^ Joy, a new species of 

 the composite volants group of the difficult genus Homolota, 

 it is recorded from " England and Ireland, probably com- 

 mon." Mr. Cameron's capture^ of another species, Homo- 

 Iota picipennis, Mann., at Rathmullan in Donegal has 

 already been referred to in the Irish Naturalist (1913, p. 41). 



Excellent figures of two of our characteristic Irish 

 beetles, Bemhidium argenteoluni^ and Otiorrhynchus auro- 

 pundatus'^ have been published in the Entomologist^ s Monthly 



1 Entom. Record^ xxiv. (1912), p. 168. 

 ^ Ent. Record, xxiv. (1912), p. 259. 

 ^ Entom. Mo. Mag., xlviii. (1912), p. 287. 

 * Entom. Mo. Mag., xlvi. (1910), p, 280. 

 5 Entom. Mo. Mag., xlvi. (1910), p. 280. 

 " Entom. Mo. Mag., xlvi. (1910), Plate I. 

 ^ Entom. Mo. Mag., xlvi. (1910), Plate IV. 



