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Lesteva punctata, Ecr. In moist gravel of Dodder bed, along with L. tricolor 
(obscura). 
Tachyporus pyrrhopterus, Ste. Mr. E. Percival Wright. 
Stenus bimaculatus, Gyl. Dr. Kinahan. 
NOTES ON IRISH DIPTERA. 
Mr. Haliday read a notice of two dipterous insects which occur in Ireland, in 
the hope of exciting some of the members of the association to further observa¬ 
tion, which might clear up several points as yet doubtful concerning them. 
1 st.— Clunio marinus. The first published notice of this genus appeared in the 
proceedings of the association (see Natural History Review, Vol. 2 ; Proceedings, 
p. 62). Mr. Haliday had lately heard from Dr. Schiner, of Vienna, that he had 
obtained a second species on the coast of the Adriatic (C. adriaticus , Sch.), the 
description of which would soon appear in the transactions of the Zoological and 
Botanical Association of Vienna. Mr. Westwood had observed C. marinus , as he 
believes, on the coast of Devon ; and it may now be added to the list of Dublin 
insects, a specimen having been found a few days before floating drowned on the 
sea water from Dublin Bay, with which the Aquaria in the Society’s rooms were 
freshly replenished. The female is as yet quite unknown, and the attention of the 
members has been drawn to this, in hopes that this gap in the natural history of 
the genus might be supplied. (Since this notice was read the male has been found 
alive on the coast near Baldoyle, within eight miles of Dublin, but outside of 
Dublin Bay.) 
2 nd. — Orphnephila testacea. Much doubt appearing to prevail as to the affini¬ 
ties Of this genus, which Professor Rondani has even proposed to constitute the 
type of a distinct family among the Nemocera, Mr. Haliday invited the attention 
of the members to the investigation of its earlier states, concerning which there 
exists as yet no information. He submitted to the meeting some notes and 
sketches of the internal anatomy of both sexes, made many years since ; see plate 
2 of this volume, and the explanation. 
The following were elected members:—Honorary member, George Gulliver, 
F.R.S. Ordinary members, H. C. Beauchamp, M.D., T.C.D.; Rev. Eugene 
O’Meara, A.M., T.C.D. ] Edward Wright, Esq., LL.D., T.C.D. 
FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1856. 
R. Ball, LL.D., President, in the Chair 
The following donation to the library was acknowledged, and thanks ordered to be 
given to the donor“ Woodward’s Manual of Mollusca,” by W. R. Tagart, Esq. 
Read, from J. C. Dale, Esq., corresponding member, Extracts from his Ento¬ 
mological Diary of earlier years. The first Entomological visit to Whittlesea 
mere ; Lyccena dispar and other rarities of that district. Researches in the foot¬ 
steps of Dr. Abbot. Hipparchia Cassiope, on the hills near Ambleside, &c. 
E. Percival Wright, Esq., read the following note on the occurrence and distri¬ 
bution of 
ANTHROCERA MINOS. 
I was anxious to obtain some information respecting our new Irish moth 
(Anthrocera minos), and thereforeMid not hesitate to accede to Dr. Carte’s (the di¬ 
rector of the Museum of the Royal Society) request to collect some specimens for his 
museum cabinet of British Lepidoptera. I left Dublin about the 17th of June, and 
took up my head-quarters at Kinvara, a seaport town in the county of Galway, not 
many miles from Gort. 
Mr. Moore, in recording the capture of the species, says, “ It occurs in abun¬ 
dance at Ardrahan, and I have traced it as far as Tyrone on the sea coast.” Now, 
as Tyrone was somewhat nearer to Kinvara than Ardrahan, it occurred to me 
that it would be better to commence my search there, which I accordingly did, and 
