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links between these two groups occur. It is to be hoped that 

 Mr. Huggins will be able to follow up this line of research 

 and solve the problem which he has raised ; it is one which 

 affects not only Ireland but probably most of the countries 

 of western Europe, in which there would seem to occur 

 forms of Limnaeae which approach both L. involuta and 

 L. praetenuis, while Clessin's var. lacustrina is possibly their 

 representative in the Alps and other mountain formations 

 in central Europe. 



Ballymagee, Bangor, Co. Down. 



NOTES, 



ZOOLOGY. 

 Argynnis ag^laia in East Waterford. 



With regard to Mr, C. B. Moffat's note in the December number of the 



Irish Naturalist, 1918, p. 172, I have taken the Dark Green Fritillary in 



several inland localities, viz., Ballinamona ; Kilmeadan ; Milepost (Co. 



Kilkenny). The first mentioned is four miles, while the other two localities 



are about eight miles from the sea. I believe this butterfly to be widely 



distributed in Ireland but decidedly local and not wholly confined to the 



coast. It would be of interest, therefore, that further records especially 



from inland habitats be forthcoming. 



L. H. Bonaparte- Wyse. 



Holland Park Gardens, London, W. 



Distribution of Jays. 



In the Irish Naturalist for December, 19 18, p. 174, Mr. Mackay Wilson 



notes the appearance of the J ay in County Longford. Up to a few weeks 



ago I had never seen a Jay in Ireland outside of the Queen's Co., where I 



noticed quite a colony of them (in Abbeyleix Demesne) thirty-five years 



ago. Last month, however, I saw a pair in the grounds of Castle Howard, 



Ovoca. On Sunday, 17th December, I saw one at Annamoe, and on the 



following Sunday I noticed three at Lough Dan, so these handsome birds 



are evidently spreading over County Wicklow, as well as to other parts of 



Ireland. 



Howard Guinness. 



Lake Park, Co. Wicklow. 



