88 The Irish NatnyaiisL April. 



Ill Ihc afternoon we started again, driving to Falcarragli 

 station and thence b}- train to Gweedore. Here we found the 

 floods even worse ; reinforced by many temporary mountain 

 torrents from the slopes around Errigal and Dooish, the Clady 

 river was in spate, having risen close on eight feet since the 

 previous day, and it was a ver\- wet but happy party that 

 supped that night at M'Bride's home-like little hotel at 

 Middletown. 



8th September. — C'arrickfin peninsula, including Carnboy 

 I.ough, the home of Planorbis glabcr and the white forms of 

 Limiuca pcrcgra and L. aiincicla) ia, was visited,, but through- 

 out our trip we found freshwater collecting most difficult 

 owing to the abnormal height of the water in the lakes. In 

 the flooded area around Dunmore Lough, together with 

 freshwater species, and on the vegetation and .stones which 

 projected above the water, Hyalinia radiaiula, H. nitida, 

 IIcHx pyovuca, Coclilicopa Iiibrica, Pupa aiigHia, Vertigo 

 pygnuca, J^. antivertigo^ ]\ subst?'iaia, Carychiuni niinivriDu. 

 Balca perversa and Sticeinca elegaiis—owr small Irish form — 

 were taken alive in abundance. It is evident that all the 

 above-mentioned species can withstand a considerable period 

 of immersion. On the sand-dunes near the southern end of 

 the peninsula a large number of the eHrinozonata and 

 roscozojiata form of Helix nemoralisw^re found living. At one 

 spot these two forms easily outnumbered all others taken 

 together. Ainalia gagafes, virion intei'mediiis and Pupa 

 muscorum were the only unrecorded species found. 



9th September.—Messrs. Welch and Bal four-Browne re- 

 turned to Belfast, and Mr. Milne and I contented ourselves 

 with working a little patch of old scrub called Cloglier- 

 macnaghten Wood, near Gweedore station. Several of the old 

 woodland species were found, viz., Ariou iiitcrmedizis. 

 Hyalinia 7ii/idula \-ar. Ilelmii, Vertigo edentula and Pupa 

 a)i<>tica. 



lotli September. — Being rejoined by Messrs. Chaster. 

 Collier and Wright, the entire day was spent on the sandhills 

 Ivin" between Buiibeq; and Ma2:her<2allon old church, where 

 the small white-lipped form of Helix nemoralis occtirs in great 

 (iuantities. Many very small .specimens were taken, most of 

 them rather conical, but by far the best find was picked up 



