igo The Irish Naturalist. 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



Irish plants in the new London Catalogue,— It may be 



interesting to point out some of the changes as regards Irish plants 

 which have been made in the ninth edition of this useful work. Irish- 

 men will regret that St. Dabeoc's Heath no longer bears his name 

 {Daboecia), but is changed to Boretia, and that the Lough Neagh sedge 

 Carex Biixbazimii becomes C. fusca, but the law of priority is inexorable. 

 Two other exclusively Irish plants, Asplcnitim Clermontce, and Potamogeton 

 longifolhis, Bab., are marked as hybrids. We have cause to be grateful, 

 however, that Rosa hibcniica still retains its name, though it had a narrow 

 escape, and that the following now help to swell the small numl)er of 

 Irish plants, Thalictntm lollinuin var. calcarcum, Carex rhynchophysa, and 

 the varieties Ilartii, Stcwartii, and occidentale from the long array of Hawk- 

 weeds. The new spelling of Spiranthcs J\o/iianzo//iana, and Isoetes laciistris 

 V. Morei should be noted ; the latter, which was spelled Moorci in the 

 eighth edition, was I suppose a misprint. 



C. H. Waddei^L, Saintfield. 



HEPATIC^. 



Jubula Hutchinsiae (Hook,)-— I am glad to be able to record a 

 new station for this beautiful scale-moss, which I have only seen before 

 in the North of Ireland at Rostrevor and Tollymore Park. It was found 

 by Miss S. M. Thompson in a damp fissure of the rocks on the coast 

 south of Newcastle, County Down. There is no appearance in the 

 North of its variety integrifolia, which is said to be one of the links 

 between the flora of S.W. Ireland and that of Spain and the West 

 Indies. 



C. H. Waddei*!/, Saintfield. 



ZOOLOGY. 



CRUSTACEA. 



Cladocera from the West of Ireland.— The following Clad- 

 ocera have been identified b}^ me in material collected at various times 

 by Prof. D'Arcy W. Thompson (of Dundee) in the neighbourhood of the 

 town of Galway — Sida crystallina, Miiller ; Daphnia piilex, De Geer ; D. 

 longispina, Miiller ; D. galcata, G. O. Sars ; Si/nocephalus veivlus, Miiller ; 

 Ceriodaphnia viegalops, G. O. Sars ; Bosmina longispina, Miiller ; Etirycerciis 

 lamellatns, Miiller; Acerpcriis harpie, Baird ; Alonopsis eloiigaia, G. O. Sars; 

 Lyncciis affinis, Kurz. ; Grapiolcbcris tcsindinaria, Fischer ; Alone! la nana, Baird ; 

 Pleuroxus trigonellus, Miiller ; Chydorns sphericns, Miiller ; Leptodora hyalina, 

 Lilljeborg. Of these species the rarest is Lyncens affinis, a form only 

 recently added to the British lists. It has lately been found, however, 

 by Mr. Scourfield in North Wales, by Mr. T. Scott in the West of 

 Scotland, and by myself near Birmingham. 



T. V. Hodgson, Birmingham. 



INSECTS. 



Plague of Beetles In Calway in 1688. — I send an extract from 

 Boate describing a curious plague of beetles in Galway in i6S8 : — 

 "In the summer of 1688 a vast swarm of insects of the Scarabeus 

 or beetle kind appeared on the S.W. coast of Galway, not far from 

 the town. They were brought by a S.W. wind and proceeded 

 towards Headford to Tuam, where, and in the adjacent country, they 

 lay by thousands among the trees and hedges, hanging to the boughs in 



