t9l4. 
J ANSON, — Coleopicra at Kiltarney. 
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and beating would often produce less than half-a-dozen 
beetles beyond the ubiquitous Rhagonycha fulva, Telc- 
phorus flavilabis, and Anthohium ophthalniicum, these and 
Anchomenus alhipes, being the only species met with in 
abundance. The total result of my week's work was only 
one hundred and sixteen species, about three-fourths 
of these being common things of general distribution and 
insufficient interest to record. I find my captures include 
eight additions to the fauna of Ireland as given in Messrs, 
Johnson and Halbert's very admirable " List of the Beetles 
of Ireland." i 
Hydraena longior, Rey. — Not uncommon on the 
under surface of fragments of rock in the Lower Lake. This 
species has been recorded by Mr. F. Balfour Browne.^ 
HoMALOTA NiGRicoRNis, Thoms. — Onc specimen taken 
by sweeping on Innisfallen. 
H. INTERMEDIA, Grav. — Several examples shaken from 
decaying vegetable matter on the lake shore, Kenmare 
Demesne. 
H. suBTiLis, Scrib. — One specimen taken by evening 
sweeping in the Kenmare Demesne. This was the only 
addition I made to my collection, 
( A few specimens taken 
Ptenidium pusillum, Gyll. j together in a damp, de- 
P. LAEVIGATUM, Gillm. j caying tree stump, Ken- 
f mare Demesne. 
Cyphon pallidulus, Bohm. — Swept in some numbers 
near Ross Castle and other parts. Apparently common 
in the Killarney district. It has been already recorded 
from Glencar by my friend, Mr. Donisthorpe, in his account 
of the Coleoptera of South Kerry. ^ 
Besides the foregoing, I took, in the Kenmare Demesne, 
a specimen of a Meligethes unknown to me, and not agree- 
ing precisely with any of the described European species ; it 
most nearly resembles M. erythropus. As I devoted 
most attention to the smaller things this may probably 
account for the rather large proportion of new records 
^ Proc, R. I. Acad. vol. xxiii,, 1902, 2 jyish Nat., vol. xxi., 1912, 
^Irish Naturalist, vol. xii., 1903. 
