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The. Irish Naturalist. 



January, 



in Johnson and Halbert's Irish List and seventy-seven are 

 unrecorded there from Co. Kerry. Allowing for the 

 additions recorded since the publication of the list in 1902, 

 as far as I have been able to ascertain, my captures include 

 six additions to the known Irish fauna and forty-eight new 

 records for Kerry. These figures I think give abundant 

 evidence that many more discoveries are still to be made 

 in this comparatively (for Ireland) rich entomological 

 district, even though the beetle-fauna of Killarney has been 

 subjected to the " incursions and flying visits of English 

 coleoptcrists " probably more than any other part of 

 Ireland, and has been, moreover, assiduously worked by 

 the indefatigable resident collector, Mr. E. Bullock, who has 

 already made considerable additions to the Irish List, and, 

 I believe, has many more discoveries to record. 



At Killarney from the 3rd to i8th of June I had Mr. 

 L. H. Bonaparte-Wyse as a companion for most of the time 

 and we secured comfortable quarters in a most convenient 

 situation for an entomologist, at the Muckross Hotel, about 

 three miles out of the town and close to an entrance to the 

 Muckross demesne, an extensive enclosure containing fine 

 trees and a very varied growth of other vegetation, and 

 long stretches of rocky, marshy and sandy shores of the 

 Lower (Lough Leane) and Middle lakes, and it was here 

 most of my collecting was done. On the lake shore Pelo- 

 phila borealis and Blethisa multipunctata were found sparingly 

 under stones and Silpha dispar occurred more commonly 

 under dead fish and other carrion laid as traps ; Bledius 

 suhtcrr aliens, only recorded from Ulster in the Irish List, 

 was detected by the " casts " from its sinuous horizontal 

 workings in a sandy part of the shore, and dug out in con- 

 siderable numbers ; near the same place three specimens 

 of Homaloia (Athcta) silvicola, new to the Irish List, Philon- 

 ihus longicornis and a small series of Stenus carhonarius 

 and 5. mclanopus were found under decaying vegetable 

 matter ; in a marshy part of the shore three Badistcr 

 pcltatus and one Stenus canescens, both new to the Irish List, 

 and Anchomcnus versufus occurred under stones and at roots 

 of tufts of grass ; close to the Colleen Hawn Rock the pretty 

 l^emhidiiim pallidipenne was met willi sparingly and very 



