82 The Irish Naturalist. July, 



day, I well remember, I went up Cynicht, and on the summit (2,265 f^et) 

 I was very much struck with the evolutions of a Red Admiral and a 

 Painted Lady. I did not, I think, observe them very closely, so that 

 I cannot say that they were actually tilting as described by Mr, Moffat, 

 but I remember that they were very much in evidence for some time ; 

 so much so that I find I referred to it in the brief entry I made in my 

 diary, viz. :— " A pair of very fine Falcons attended me on the top ; 

 also a Red Admiral and Painted Lady." It struck me at the time as 

 an unusual spot to find these Butterflies, and so far as it goes — though 

 it is not very far— it confirms Mr. Moffat's view that there must be some 

 special attraction to account for their choice of such a venue. 



H. N. Dixon. 

 Northampton. 



Trichoniscus roseus at Belfast. 



The first record from North of Ireland of this small species was by 

 Dr. R. F. Scharff in this Journal, vol. iii., p. 26, of specimens in shell-marl 

 that I obtained from near Portaferry, Co. Down. The marl had been 

 in my yard for some little time and I was always in doubt where the 

 woodlice came from. To-day — May 28th — I find a number among 

 stones in front garden of my house, an area only a few yards square, 

 where no plants whatever have been introduced for over seven 

 or eight years. I have never seen them there before though I have 

 often hunted among these stones for worms and woodlice. 



R. J. Welch. 

 Belfast. 



The Brown Lizard, Lacerta vivipara, at Whitehead. 



While the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club party were walking along 

 the railway to Cloughan Point, Belfast Lough, this May, Captain Chase 

 caught a specimen of above beside the railway lines. In all my fifty 

 years' travelling and collecting in Ireland, this is only the third specimen 

 I have ever seen in the open. The first in a bog near Newtownards, 

 Down, in 1878, the second on a bank beside the station at Whitehead 

 (an old railway carriage !) a year or two later. It is probably more 

 abundant than is generally supposed, but its protective colouration 

 renders it hard to see. The Zoologist for June, i860, p. 7172, records 

 " vast numbers " as appearing in Co. Down that year. 



R. J. Welch 

 Belfast, 



