^8 The Irish Naturalist. February, 1912. 



side of Killybegs Harbour, opposite the Rotten Island lighthouse, is the 

 little bay known as Rcshin Port, and high up on the hillside is a small 

 cave known as Marget Dhu's Cave. The entrance is covered with brambles 

 and not very easy to find, and roughly speaking it is some 30 to 40 feet 

 above the high tide mark. On entering the cave no signs of any animals 

 were to be seen with the exception of quantities of a large spider, and 

 numbers of cocoons of their eggs suspended from the roof ; I have handed 

 specimens to Mr. Winter, of Bradford, and will communicate the name of 

 the species later. The soil on the floor v\as undisturbed, and of a light brown 

 colour similar to the soil outside. The place seemed a very likely one for a 

 habitation, so it was decided to make a little further investigation and a 

 spade was requisitioned ; on digging down it seemed that most of the soil 

 had been washed or blown in from outside, but at a depth of some 14 to 

 16 inches, a layer of snells occurred ^ some 2 inches deep, and the soil was 

 much darker, almost black ; the only types I noted were the whelk and 

 the limpet, but unfortunately time was too short to make a further in- 

 vestigation. On some future occasion I will endeavour to clear the whole 

 floor down to the shell level and make more careful notes. Mr. J. de W. 

 Hinch, to whom this note has been shown, together with samples of the 

 shells, says that there can be little doubt that this is a pre -historic kitchen - 

 midden. Later in the evening I was spealdng to Mr. P. Carre, of Roshin, 

 and he informed me that when some excavations were being made higher 

 up on the Drumanoo Road, he saw large quantities of similar shells ; 

 this is considerably further inland and much higher above sea-level. I 

 intend to have a look into this matter also on my next visit. 



Chris. A. Cheetham 

 Farnley, Leeds. 



Fossil Foraminifera. 



The Belfast Naturalists Field Club publish, as an Appendix to the 

 Report and Proceedings for 1910-11, two interesting papers by their 

 veteran member, Mr. Joseph Wright, F.G.S., the one entitled " Boulder- 

 clays from the North of Ireland, with lists of Foraminifera," and the 

 other, " Foraminifera from the Estuarine Clays of Magheramorne, Co. 

 Antrim, and Limavady Station, Co. Derry." 



The titles are slightly misleading, as the first paper is occupied entirely 



with an account of Foraminifera obtained, the clays themselves being not 



described in any way ; while in the second paper *' Limavady Station " 



should read " Limavady Junction " ; there are no Estuarine clays at 



Limavady, which lies beyond the formerly submerged area in which is 



situated the junction of the main line and the Limavady branch. The 



lists of Foraminifera which Mr. Wright gives in these papers furnish an 



important contribution to the knowledge of our post-PUocene fauna, 



A number of very rare species are recorded, and the following new forms 



are described, and illustrated in two excellent lithographed plates : — 



Lagena laevigata var. Malcomsonii var. nov. ; Lagena Stewartii sp. nov. 



(named after S. A. Stewart) ; Lingulina carinata var. biloculi var. nov. 



Discorhina Millettii sp. nov. ; Biloculina haddoniana sp. nov. (named after 



Professor A. C. Haddon). 



