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TJw Irish Naturalist, 



January, 



mountain was usually enveloped in mist and an attempt to 

 ciscend it, on what appeared to be a favourable day, was 

 frustrated, before reaching the Devil's Punch Bowl, by a 

 sudden and violent storm of wind and rain necessitating 

 a hurried retreat and return, in a drenched and chilled 

 condition, to the hotel, for a hot bath and stimulants. 



Returning to Killarney on the 25th and remaining until 

 the 30th of June, the country to the west of the town was 

 explored, and here, in the Kenmare demesne, Conosoma 

 pedicularium, Choleva nigrita, Aiomaria linearis and Crypto- 

 hypniis dcrmestoides occurred under dead vegetable matter ; 

 a few Ilyhius ater were found under stones on the lake 

 shore ; plenty of Hylaster ater, H. opacus and H. palliatus 

 and a few Myelophiliis piniperda were dug out of the stumps 

 of recently felled pines ; Rhizophagus depressus, R. ferrugi- 

 neus, R. dispar, Phloeopora reptans and Homaliiim pusillum 

 were all found in some numbers under the bark of the 

 felled pines, and Pityopthorus pubescens was beaten from 

 the dead boughs of these trees. 



At Kenmare, June 19th and 20th, Telephones darwinianus 

 was the most noteworthy capture, having been hitherto 

 recorded only from the northern and eastern parts of 

 Ireland ; Bemhidinm concinnum was also found plentifully 

 amongst shingle at the head of the Sound. 



At Sneem, a fairly large village some fifteen miles west 

 of Kenmare, a stay was made from the 21st to 25th of 

 June, and good accommodation was found at O'Shea's 

 hotel, adjoining a picturesque old stone bridge over the 

 Ardsheelhane river. Here I devoted most of my time to 

 the wild rocky ground to the north of the village and ex- 

 tending to the fine range of mountains about four miles 

 distant. Insects were scarce, but my efforts in turning 

 over ])ortions of rock, more or less embedded in the peaty 

 soil, were rewarded by the capture, for the first time, of the 

 noble Carahus clathratus, other species brought to light in 

 the same way included Amara acuminata, Harpalus rub- 

 ripcs, Ocypus comprcssus and Othiiis myrmccophilus. An 

 aitempt to ascend KnoeknagiMitee (2219 ft.) met with as 

 little success as that at Mangerton. for, on reaching a point 

 a few hundred feet above the I^Lagh^'s Loiigli, rain and dense 



