204 The Irish Natiualist. September, 



The Botanical Analysis of a Feeding Stuff. 



The foUowiii}^ analysis of a feeding stuff which was sent up from 

 Greystones to the Public Health Laboratory this year may be of interest, 

 as show ing how foreign species may be accidentally introduced into this 

 country. Seeds were contained in it belonging to the following 24 

 species : — 



Antheniis ColuUiy Avcua sativa, Ihassita arvciisis /, Caineiina sat'n'a.Cttitaiirea 

 nieliteiists, Ccratochloa aiis/rah's, Chenopodiiini a/bii/ii, Gcraiiinin dissecliini, 

 Liniiin iisilatissimnin^ Loliiim rciiio'.um, Medicago saliva, Panic 11 ni capillars 

 Plialaris anindinacea. Polygonum aviciihire. P. Convolvulus, A'lti/ir.x conglonicratus! 

 A', ii ispus, P. obtusifolius^ R. pralensis ? Sccalc ccrcale, Setaria viridis. Silybuni 

 Marianu/n, 7'riliiuin sativum. Verbena offiiinalis. 



Of these, Centaurca tnelitensis and Setaria viridis are found in Kastern 



Europe ; Loliuni reniotum is a native of Europe and Western Asia : Pani- 



cum capillarc occurs in North America, and Ccratochloa australis in South 



America. I am indebted to Miss Hensman and Miss Kuowles for the 



identification and the distribution of the above species. 



J. Adam.S. 

 Royal College of Science, Dublin. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Additional localities for the new Irish Vitrina. 



It is now two years since Mr. J. \V. Taylor, F.L.vS., at the Cork 

 Triennial Field Club Conference, announced the discovery of a second 

 species of Vitrina to the Britannic area, from specimens sent him by 

 Mr. P. H. Grierson from Lord INIassareene's demesne at Collon, Co. 

 Louth." Lentil INIay of this year no further locality for the species was 

 discovered, but in this month when on my way from Droghedato Collon 

 I found a number of specimens, all dead, at the roots of grass around 

 the ruins of some cottages by the roadside about a mile and a half east 

 of the original habitat. A few days later, when the Belfast Naturalists'^ 

 Field Club were vi.siting the Boyue Valley, the shell was found in two 

 additional localities by Mr. R. Welch, first at Mellifont Abbey, where 

 one dead shell was collected, and secondly at Monasterboice, where two 

 full grown live and about a dozen dead specimens, includingtho.se found 

 by "Mr. J. N. Milne and nn'self, were obtained. INJoss growing at the 

 roots of grass was in all cases the habitat and the species was associated 

 with Vitrina pellucida, Helix rotundata, //. hispida and Coclilicopa lubrica in 

 all three localities, while Ilyalinia pura also occurred .with it at one of 

 them. All the new stations are also in Co. Louth, though at Mellifont 

 the find was made within a few yards of the Mattock River which here 

 divides the counties of Louth and Meath. 



A W, Stei.fox. 



Belfast. 



' J. W. Taylor in /;. Nat., August, IC/O"]— Vitrina eloni^afa. Rev. V,. W. 

 Bowell, in Jr. A*//., May, 1908 — Vitrina pyrcnaica. J. W. Taylor in Mon. 

 L. & F.-W. Moll, of the British Isles, Part 15, Oct., \<)oS— Vitrina hibcrnica. 



