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there being but few flowers near the spots. Their long hind legs 

 were held together whilst on the wing, and m appearance somewhat 

 resembled the long ovipositor of an ichneumon ; owing to this 

 circumstance, and their antennae, I at first mistook them for one of 

 those insects. A second glance, however, convinced me of my error. 

 Being rather pressed for time, I was only able to capture ten specimens. 

 The following week I visited a place called Craddock, near CoUumpton, 

 Devon, (about ten miles from Ashbrittle), and found them fairly 

 common on the Umbelliferae — more especially the species already 

 mentioned. Nine out of ten of those on flowers were males ; whilst 

 those captured on the wing, at Ashbrittle, were mostly females. — 

 F. Milton, 164 Stamford Hill, London, N. 



Irish Coleoptera. — On the nth of May last, I took a specimen 

 of CychriLs rostratus in a pine wood on Killakee Mountain, Co. Dublin, 

 under a large stone half sunk in pine needles, etc. This is, I believe, 

 the first record of the beetle from this part of Ireland. A specimen 

 I took in the South, made a faint stridulating noise when captured, 

 which habit has, I think, been noticed by other coleopterists. On 

 the same date a considerable number of specimens of Silpha atrata, 

 var. suhvotiinda were noticed, but I have never got a specimen of the 

 5. atvata itself in Dublin, where it appears to be extremely rare. I 

 again took Helops striatus'''' in dead wood. I have not come across any 

 cockchafers this year, and the coldness- of the season may have 

 retarded them. — J. Montgomery Browne, Dubhn, June nth, 1891. 



Irish Coleoptera. — On page 157, paragraph relating to Scrica 

 bnmnea, the locality should be " Bundoran,,' not " Bundora." On page 

 158, for Bembiduim read Bembidmm. Also on same page, for "Killarney" 

 read "Killiney." 



Telephorus translucidus. — This uncommon species has again 

 ^ been taken in the "London district." Some half-dozen specimens 

 ' have been taken at Longton, in July, by myself and Mr. Heasller. Mr. 

 I E. A. Newbery and Rev. J. Isabell also captured it at Highgate. — 

 ' G. A. Lewcock. 



*Ih'lops striatus is very abundant in the pine needles at foot of trees, and elsewhere, 

 at Ksher during winter months. — G.A.L. 



