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J ANSON. — Coleoptera in Co. Kerry. 



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difficult to detect when at rest owing to its similarity in 

 coloration to the sand ; by sweeping, which the weather 

 seldom permitted, several Corymhites tcssellatus, one Gymne- 

 tron villosiilus, Paramecosoma v. infuscatum, Liopus nebu- 

 losus and Epuraea pusilla came to the net ; during a brief 

 interval of bright sunshine a specimen of the beautiful 

 Chrysomela fastuosa was found on the head of a small plant 

 of peppermint on the lake shore ; beating dead boughs 

 and breaking up decaying wood produced Dromius meri- 

 dionalis D. iv-notatus, Salpingus casteneus and Trypoden- 

 dron domesticum ; three specimens of Clinocara tetratoma, an 

 addition to the Irish List, and a few C. undulata, found in 

 a fungoid growth under the bark of a dead holly, were 

 welcome captures ; a few Cis alni and one Soronia punc- 

 tatissima occurred beneath a boletus on an oak ; Pocadius 

 ferrugineus was found in plenty in Lycoperdon where 

 Mr. Bonaparte-Wyse had taken it in previous years ; 

 Thinasimus formicarius was found on the trunks of some 

 very decrepit holly trees and an Ichneumon, that Mr. C. 

 Morley has identified for me as Ephialtes strohilorum, Ratz., 

 was observed assiduously probing, with its long ovipositor 

 the numerous burrows of Mesites Tardyi. All the fore- 

 going captures were made in the Muckross demesne. In 

 a much decayed fir-log lying near the base of the Tore 

 mountain I was very pleased to discover two specimens of 

 Quedionuchiis laevigatus, an interesting generic addition to 

 the Irish List and a rather unexpected capture, as this fine 

 distinct "staph" has only occurred as British in the High- 

 lands of Scotland ; in the same neighbourhood a very large 

 example of Melanotus rufipes was dug out of a dead standing 

 pine ; Cis nitidus was found in a boletus and Ochina hederae, 

 Priobium castaneum and Acalles turbatus were taken in 

 plenty by beating holly and ivy. In Cloghereen wood 

 Choleva Kirbyi, an addition to the Irish List, Cychrus ros- 

 tratus, Actobiiis cinerascens and Bythinus puncticollis were 

 shaken from moss ; Cryptorhynchus lapathi, Deporails 

 betulae, Orchestes salicis, 0. alni and 0. rusci were obtained 

 by beating birch and sallow. At the foot of Mangerton 

 Aphodius lapponum was plentiful in dung and a few of the 

 entirely black form of A. luridus were also taken. This 



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