THE BRITISH NATURALIST. 



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A CATALOGUE OF IRISH COLEOPTERA. 



BY REV. W. F. JOHNSON, M.A., F.E.S. 



No attempt has hitherto been made to catalogue the Coleoptera of 

 Ireland owing to the almost total lack of materials for the purpose. 



Lately, however, a considerable amount of interest has been shown 

 in this order, and there are now several active collectors resident in the 

 country. The present, therefore, seemed a suitable time for publishing 

 the accompanying list, not as representing a complete account of the 

 Coleoptera of Ireland, but rather to show what has been done, and to 

 act as a starting point. 



In compiling this catalogue I have made use of the lists published by 

 the Belfast Field Naturalists' Club of the collections made by the late 

 A. H. Haliday (Trans. 1883-84, Appendix viii.) and by the late R. 

 Patterson, F.R.S. (Trans. 1884-85, Appendix ix.) ; also of the list of the 

 Coleoptera of the Dublin District compiled by Professor McNab for the 

 meeting of the British Association in Dublin in 1878. I have also 

 received valuable assistance from Canon Fowler, Rev. J. Bristow, 

 Messrs. J. M. Brown, D. C. Campbell, G. H. Carpenter, H. G. 

 Cuthbert, W. D. Donnan, J. N. Halbert, H. L. Jameson, W. F. de 

 V. Kane, andW. H. Patterson, jun. Several non-entomological friends 

 have greatly assisted me by sending specimens or bags of moss from 

 localities that I could not visit. I have also to thank Canon Fowler, 

 Rev. H. S. Gorham, and Dr. D. Sharp for their kind assistance in 

 determining species with which I was unacquainted. Though I have 

 carefully collated all the information I could obtain, it is quite possible 

 that there are some who have collected in Ireland whose records I have 

 not met with. Should this meet the eye of any such, I hope they will 

 communicate with me and add to the sum of our knowledge of Irish 

 Coleoptera. 



I have followed the nomenclature and arrangement of Dr. Sharp and 

 Canon Fowler's catalogue. 



As regards localities, as I have given these in full except in the case 

 of common species, where I have merely given the counties in which 

 they have occurred, without adding captor's name. I have used the 

 following abbreviations of the names of collectors : — 



J.B. Rev. J. Bristow, Belfast. 



M.B. J. M. Browne, Dublin. 



S.B. Rev. S. A. Brenan, Cushendun, co. Antrim. 



D. C. D. C. Campbell, Londonderry. 



E. C. E. Roper Curzon. 



G. C. G. H. Carpenter, B. Sc., Science and Art Museum, Dublin. 



H. C. H. Gore Cuthbert, Blackrock, co. Dublin. 



