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On this point and, indeed, on all others connected with phagocytes 

 and phagocytosis, I would refer such as are desirous of studying 

 the subject further to the remarkable lectures on the " Comparative 

 Pathology of Inflammation," delivered by Professor Metchnikoff at 

 the Pasteur Institute in 1891 and published in England in 1893.* 

 In these lectures it is gratifying to find the biologist acknowledging 

 the importance of morbid processes, particularly of the struggle 

 between the organism and its aggressors in the "consecutive study 

 of the course of natural selection," and admitting that whilst 

 " medical science may learn much from biology, of which it forms 

 but a part, it may at the same time give something in return." 



A CATALOGUE OF IRISH COLEOPTERA. 



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



( Continued from page 197.) 



Nebria complanata, L. — Arklow, co.Wicklow (a dead specimen found 



by Mr. Furlong, afterwards found in abundance by Mr. 



Percival Wright) ; Courtown, co. , Wexford (H. C. and 



W. F. K.) ; Waterford (S. M.). 

 N. brevicollis, F. — Donegal, Antrim, Down, Armagh, Louth, 



Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Cork. 

 N. gyllenhali, Sch. — Ardara, co. Donegal; Armagh, Clay Lake Keady, 



co. Armagh (W. F. J.) ; Dublin Mountains, Glendalough, co. 



Wicklow (H. C.) ; Callay, co. Wicklow (S.M.). 

 Pelophila borealis, Payk. — Lough Neagh (A. H.) ; Shane's Castle, 



co. Antrim (W. D.) ; Markree Castle, co. Sligo (W. F. K.) ; 



banks of River Erne above Ballyshannon, co. Donegal ; 



Maghery and Derryadd, on shore of Lough Neagh ; Lowry's 



Lough Armagh, Clay Lake Keady, and Loughgilly, co. 



Armagh (W. F. J.) ; Killarney (Wollaston). 

 Blethisa multipunctata, L. — Near Belfast (A. H.) ; Templehouse 



Lake, Ballymote, co. Sligo (S. M.) ; Coolmore, co. Donegal ;. 



Lowry's Lough, Armagh (W. F. J.). 

 Elaphrus riparius, L. — Ardara, Coolmore, and banks of River Erne, 



above Ballyshannon, co. Donegal ; near Scotstown, co. 



Monaghan ; Lowry's Lough and Loughgall, co. Armagh (W. 



F. J.) ; near Belfast (A. H.) ; Ballymote, co. Sligo (S. M.) ; 



Dublin district (McN.) ; S. Dublin (H. C). 

 E. cupreus, Duft. — Portsalon, co. Donegal (R. S.); near Belfast 



* Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner & Co., London. 



