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Of the Longicornia, Pogonochems Jiispidus should be put upon the 

 roll. An entry is already made by Fowler in his " Coleoptera of 

 the British Islands," and a specimen was taken by me in the glen of 

 the downs in a dead branch of a tree at the point where it snapped in 

 two. This was in 1889. Seven species of Longicornia are — if this 

 be added — found in the Dublin and Wicklow district. 



To the Phytophaga of Dublin must be added Gonioctena pallida, 

 which was taken in great numbers on the nut trees at Poule-na-Phouca 

 by Mr. Sydney Gary, Mr. George Cuthbert, and myself, in 1890, on the 

 May excursion of the Dublin Naturalist Club. I also record Phcedon 

 tmnidulum which I took on the banks of the Liffey. I have also another 

 insect of this group, not yet identified, and very probably not recorded 

 as yet. 



To the Pseudotrimera three additions are made — these are Coccinella 

 22=punctata, taken by Mr. F. Neale in 1890 ; Coccinella oblongoguttata, 

 found by me in 1889; and C. ocellata, first found by my brother at 

 Glen Dhu (1888), and which appears pretty well distributed. 



Dublin, 6th May, 1891. 



Notes. 



Irish Notes.— The following observations, suggested by the 

 Gossiping Notes on Coleoptera" (" British Naturalist" for March), 

 may be of some interest to your readers. Although I have collected 

 much in this district (South Dublin, the South of Ireland, and County 

 Louth) I have never found a specimen of Deinetrias uiiipuiictatus. 

 D. atricapillus is not rare in this county or in County Wicklow ; but 

 the only Dromii I have hitherto found are D. linearis and D. iiigri- 

 ventris. The former is very abundant on the commons north of the 

 Boyne Estuary, but the latter I have taken only sparingly in some 

 flood rubbish near Poule-na-Phouca, Co. Kildare. 0. melaimra, I believe, 

 has never been found in Ireland, possibly because Irish Coleoptera as 

 a whole have been little investigated ; but I am disposed to think that 

 insects which in Great Britain are local, or sparingly distributed, are 

 pretty certain to have no place in the Irish fauna. Last year, liow- 

 ever, 1 found the Hydrophilid PJiilJiydnis nigricans, not hitherto in the 

 Irish lists, in this neighbourhood. — H. G. Cuthbert, Blackrock 

 Dublin. 



