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The Irish Naturalist. 
May, 
Prof. G. H. Carpenter showed larvae of Psendococciis aceris, a " mealy 
bug," which had been found in numbers on apple shoots in Co. x\rmagh 
in May, 191 3. The species, not hitherto recorded from Ireland, appears 
to be rather uncommon in Great Britain where it is found on a variety 
of plants notably on Furze. 
NOTES, 
ZOOLOGY. 
Lissonota vicina, a Rare Ichneumon Fly. 
On April ist 1 noticed a small Ichneumon fly crawling up and down 
the window of my dining room. I duly captured it, and on examining 
it found that it was Lissonota vicina, Holmgr. As this is a very rare 
species in the British Islands I sent the specimen to Mr. Claude Morley, 
F.E.S., the well-known authority on these insects, and he has confirmed 
my determination. This is a small species being only about five millimetres 
in length, black with part of the abdomen red and the legs red with coxae 
and trochanters black. It is somewhat like the common L. bellator, but 
has the vertical orbits immaculate which in L. bellator are marked with 
white. It has only been once recorded as British by Mr. Bridgman from 
Earlham near Norwich, in 1893. 1^ ^^^^ to be sparsely distributed in 
northern and central Europe. Its appearance so early in the year is 
remarkable, for Mr. Morley states (" British Ichneumons," vol. iii., p. 
185) " nearly all our species are found only in the late summer and 
autumn ; " and this I have found to be the case with my own captures 
which have mostly been made in Augu.st and September. This specimen 
probably flew into my dining room as the day was fine and the window 
where I found it had been open. 
W. F. Johnson. 
Acton Glebe, Poyntzpass. 
Coleoptera at Killarney. 
In explanation of a discrepancy in my notes under the above heading 
in the February number of this Journal, where the number of additional 
records for Ireland is stated as eight and only seven appearing, I may 
mention that the omitted species is Ptimts tectus, Boield., of which I 
captured a specimen on a window of the New Hotel, Killarney, on July 
22nd, but, as Prof. Carpenter informs me, the species has already been 
recorded by him from Co. Dubhn [Econ. Proc. Royal Dublin Soc, vol. i., 
1908, p. 587), and by Dr. Nicholson from Co. Meath {Irish Naturalist, 
vol. xxii., 1913, p. 49). This insect, apparently a recent importation 
from Australia, is becoming rapidly spread over the British Islands. 
Oliver E. Janson. 
Highgate, London, N. 
