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THE BRITISH NATURALIST. 



Blechrus, Motschulsky. — The Greek word from which this name 

 is derived means "weak, feeble," also "dull, sluggish." But one 

 species, B. uiauriis, Sturm., occurs in Britain. It is rather common 

 in South of England. I have found it on banks of Thames, below 

 Barking, Essex, in flood refuse, and also running about in the damp 

 creeks during sunshine. Occurs also " under stones, in moss, on 

 pathways, &c. Common and generally distributed " (G. C. Champion, 

 "Kent and Surrey Coleoptera "). At sides of walls, Blackheath 

 (West). Tooting, common under bark, also at roots of plants ; 

 Putney, Pegwell Bay, Southsea (E. A. Newbery). Common on banks 

 and under stones, Hastings (W. H. Bennett). "I have taken a single 

 specimen here, but do not know the locality" (R. Gillo, Bath). 

 " Scarce in this district " (W. E. Sharp, Ledsham). " Mr. Gregson 

 records this species from the sandhills " (Wallasey ?). " I once found 

 it in abundance at the north end of Wallasey Pool, dashing about, as 

 I think Mr. Rye describes it, like an animated grain of gunpowder " 

 (Dr. Ellis, " Liverpool Coleoptera "). Taken also at Hartlepool by 

 Mr. Robson. 



RECENTLY RECORDED IRISH COLEOPTERA. 



BY J. MONTGOMERY BROWNE, 



B.A., Moderator in Nat. S. Diib. Univ. 



Dr. McNab's list of Dublin Coleoptera, published in 1878, num- 

 bered 623 species, and since that time no catalogue has been 

 drawn up. 



There are enumerated by Dr. McNab 109 species of the 

 Geodephaga, including one species of Tiger beetle, Cicindela campestris. 

 This is, as far as I can find out, the only Irish species, and it is found 

 plentifully at Howth Head, and also occurs in one or tw^o other 

 localities in the Dublin district. In Cork, however, where I collected 

 for some time, I have never seen it nor heard of its being taken. 



Elaphnis riparius is recorded from Tichnoch, and is the only species 

 of its genus upon the published list ; but in 1888 Dr. Scharff took a 

 number of specimens of Elaphnis cupreus upon a half-submerged log 

 in the lake in Woodlands domain, Lucan. 



