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very wet sphagnum on the Home Bog" on September 
26th, and another on the next day within a couple of feet 
of it. 
2. T achy poms transver salts, Gr. — Three specimens shaken 
out of a large tuft of sphagnum on the *' Home Bog " on 
September 27th. 
3. Gyrophaena pulchella, Heer. — A short series from 
some ground fungi under pine trees in the "Bog Wood" 
on September 26th. 
4. Ips. iv. -punctata, Hbst. — One from under a dead 
squirrel in the *'Bog Wood" on September 26th. 
5. Ceuthorrhynchus chalybaeus, Germ. — Three specimens 
by sweeping Sisymbrium officinale on September 23rd. 
If I had known at the time that this species is new to 
Ireland, a fact which I did not discover until I had named 
my specimens, I could, no doubt, have procured many 
more. 
In addition the following species deserve mention : — 
Pristonychus terricola, Hbst., under the bark of a dead 
Ash ; Hydroporus vittula, Er., not uncommon in a ditch ; 
Agabus affinis, Pk., three specimens in wet sphagnum on 
the " Home Bog " ; Omalium vile, Er., in plenty under the 
bark of logs ; Syntomium aeneum, Miill., one by sweeping 
on the " Home Bog" ; Actobius cinerascens, Gr., a few in 
sphagnum ; Philonthus nigrita, Nord., several in sphagnum 
on the " Home Bog" ; Staphylinus erythropterus , L., I had 
never met with this species here before ; Mycetoporus 
lepidus, Gr., one by sweeping ; Hygronoma dimidiata, Gr., 
not uncommon by sweeping over very damp places on 
the "Home Bog" ; here also I secured a nice series of 
Gymnusa brevicollis, Pk., both by sweeping and by wringing 
out the wettest sphagnum I could find. 
Epuraea obsoleta, F., in a Boletus on an Ash-stump ; 
together with it there occurred Rhizophagus perforatus, Er. ; 
Cryptophagus setulosus, Stm., by sifting pine-needles ; 
Ephistemus gyrinoides, Marsh., common in some fungi. 
Phyllotreta exclamationis, Thunb., by sweeping ; Longi- 
tarsus holsaticus, L., an occasional specimen by sweeping 
