66 The Irish Naturalist. June, 



have since taken two females at Stratford on Slaney, Co. Wicklow, and 

 Dr. R. LI. Praeger found another female at Roundstone, Co. Galway. 



Pardosa monticola C. L. Koch. — I took a female of this spider at 

 Ballycastle, Co. Antrim, and another near Kilrea in the same county, 

 both adult in June. Mr. Nevin H. Foster also found females on the 

 islands in Clew Bay, Co. Mayo. It had previously been found in two 

 counties in Leinster (Dublin and Carlow), one in Munster (Waterford), 

 and one in Connaught (Galway). 



Pardosa palustris Linn. — This spider, though widely distributed, 

 mostly round the coastal counties, has not yet been recorded for Con- 

 naught. I have, however, taken specimens in Co. Galway (Carrowroe, 

 Costello, Dogs Bay, Roundstone and Lough Fee) and Mr. Nevin H. Foster 

 took it in the neighbourhood of Louisburgh, Co. Mayo. 



Heliophanus flavipes Hahn. — This is a rare spider in Ireland, having 

 only been found so far in two counties in Leinster (Dublin, Carlow) and 

 two in Ulster (Antrim, Derry). Mr. R. A. Phillips has now sent me an 

 adult male which he got by Lough Derg near Dromineer, Co. Tipperarj^ 

 in May, 1922. 



Epiblemum cingulatum Panz.^ — Mr, R. A. Phillips took two males 

 of this species near Menlough, Co. Galway, in June, 1923, and a female at 

 Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, in June, 1921. It had previously only been 

 found in Counties Kerry and Carlow. 



Mr. A. W. Stelfox gave me lately a tube of specimens 

 he collected in July, 191 1, on Caher Island, which lies be- 

 tween Inishturk and the mainland of Co. Mayo. As the 

 inhabitants of such a small island, which is about a mile 

 long by half a mile wide, are always of interest, I give the 

 names of the species collected which are as follows : — 



Xysticus cristatiis, CI. Cluhiona holosericea, de G. 



Textrix denticidata, Oliv. Pirata piraticus, CI. 



There was also one phalangid Mitopus Morio, Fabr., 

 and a woodlouse (Trichoniscits pusillus. Brandt). 



NOTES, 



Hooded Crow at Hillsboroug^h. 



A bird shot in Hillsborough Park on loth May was brought to me 

 for identification. It was a Hooded Crow, Corviis comix Lin., and on 

 dissection proved a female. Thompson states {Nat. Hist, of Ireland, 

 Vol. II., p. 146) that about 1832 Hooded Crows nested at Lough Aghery 

 [Achrony] only a few miles from here, but since that time the}^ have 

 been unknown in the district. The gamekeeper, whose life has been all 

 spent in Hillsborough Park, says he never saw a bird like it before. The 

 only place in Co. Down where this bird is now known to frequent is the 

 Mourne Mouniain district. ' Nevin H. Foster. 



Hillsborough. Co. Dov.'n 



