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from the world of waters. One side of the Punch Bowl and both sides 

 of the Horses Glen — part of the mountain of Crohane — consist of the 

 metamorphosed Old Red, whilst the small peak of Benaunmore still 

 offers a specimen of the original but now consolidated lava which 

 welled up from the unknown igneous depths of the interior of the globe. 

 I take it that the volcanic ash of the Government surveyors is, as I have 

 said, but baked Old Red, and what it has gained by its fiery acquaint- 

 ance is increased hardness but diminished cohesiveness. The layers 

 of the original deposit are done away with, the tendency to split up 

 into joints is much more marked, and hence much more amenable to 

 the influence of either sub-aqueous or sub-aerial denudation. 



In bringing these notes to a conclusion I beg to remark that, desiring 

 to keep attention to one or two points, I have purposely omitted any 

 reference to a number of attractions which Killarney offers to everyone, 

 but to the naturalist in especial. For instance, there are many interest- 

 ing problems in the geology of the district to which I have not even 

 alluded, because their solution did not immediately relate to the produc- 

 tion of the present scenery. 



In the course of many happy holidays spent in this neighbourhood, I 

 have from time to time met with scientific botanists, who all expressed 

 their satisfaction with the results of their visits. Entomologists are not 

 so frequently seen as they ought to be, for they will find here a capital 

 hunting ground, and one that is not as yet thoroughly worked up. With 

 regard to other classes of visitors, the follower of the gentle craft will 

 have sport enough if he go at the right time, but though nature has 

 done her utmost in providing facilities for the growth and multiplication 

 of fishes, man has been potent in counteraction, and as the guide book 

 sorrowfully says : — " The district might be one of the best for angling, 

 but somehow it is not." Here too are mountains for the athlete to scale, 

 which are difficult and not without danger — the latter qualification to 

 him an absolute necessity. 



To each visitor be his proper part assigned, and then as Dean Hole 

 says : — " Killarney will be a name to call up pleasant memories — a word 

 that will ever afterwards have a strong, strange power upon the heart." J 



GOSSIPING NOTES ON BRITISH COLEOPTERA. 



BY G. A. LEWCOCK. 



(Continued from page 8 8. J 



Calathus, Bonelli. — In the recent " Catalogue of British Coleop- 

 tera," by Fowler and Sharp (1893), the members of this genus are 

 grouped with Taphria, Pristonychus, Sphodrus, Anchomenus, and 



