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NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



PHANEROGAMS. 



Bristly Ox-Tongue in Co. Wexford. — I found Helminthia echioides 



at Kilmanock, Co. Wexford, in October, 1894. It has previously been 

 recorded for the Co. Wexford by Mr. H. C. Hart and Miss L. S. Glascott, 

 but is very rare. I sent a specimen to Mr. J. H. Burnill, Curator of the 

 Cambridge University Botanical Museum, for identification. — G. E. H. 

 Barrett-Hamilton, Kilmanock, New Ross. 



ZOOLOGY. 



INSECTS. 



Asphalla flavlcornls at Lough Swilly, Co. Donegal.— On 



26th July, 1883, we took a larva of A. flavicornis on birch near Buncrana, 

 and on 3rd August another at same place. One of them died ; from the 

 other we reared an imago, on 7th March, 1884. On 14th June, 1884, we 

 beat another larva from birch at Rathmullen, but did not succeed in 

 rearing it. By an editorial mistake this species was wrongly entered as 

 C. or in my list of the Lepidoptera of this district (/. Nat., January, 1893.) 

 It is satisfactory to know that this moth may, therefore, be reinstated 

 in the Irish list. — D. C. Campbeee, Londonderry. 



MOLLUSCS. 



A supposed new Species of Llmax from Ireland.— Another 

 new species of slug from Ireland is described by Mr. W. E. Collinge 

 (Journal of Malacology, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1894), but although he remarks — 

 "Anatomically there seems to be little doubt but that there are sufficient 

 grounds to separate it from any other known species of the genus," yet 

 he acknowledges that " it is a form of L. maximus, possibly ^ sufficiently 

 distinct to be regarded as another species." Before definitely adding 

 the species to our list of Irish slugs, we must wait for further details and 

 figures which are promised. — R. F. Scharff, Dublin. 



Shells from Co. Donegal. — The following is a list of the shells 

 collected by Mr. R. Welch in Co. Donegal, on the long excursion of the 

 Belfast Field Club and at other times : — Bundoran: Helix nemoralis, type 

 and 10,345 in about equal numbers; var. casianea, alive, but denuded of their 

 epidermis by drifting sand, plentiful ; var. libellula, one specimen ; var. 

 hyalozonata, with white lip (= var. albolabiata), two specimens. Rath- 

 mui.IvEN : Helix rufescens, two specimens of type. Rosapenna Links : 

 H. tricelorum, dark form, and H. acuta. BOTTOM SHORE : H. nemoralis, 

 type, one a pretty shell with the second band reduced to dots, = 1 : 345 

 band formula ; Helix erketorum] very fine, and mostly bandless. 



Rejectamenta from Portsaeon Links yielded H. pulchella, Pupa 

 muscorum, Hyl. fulva, Carychium minimum, Coch. lubrica, and Vertigo angustior. 

 With these a good many specimens of Rissoa striata, JR. costata, and R.parva 

 occurred, and one specimen of Lepton Clarkice. Rejectamenta from 

 BOTTOM Shore, Portsalon, contained great numbers of Rissoa punctura, 

 R. striata, R. costata, and R. cingillus, also many juvenile Phas. pulla, Cerith. 

 reticulatum, Turritella communis, and Trochus cinerarias.— R. STANDEN, 

 Manchester. 



FISHES. 



A new Species of Ray (Rata Planda) from Irish waters. 



In the Journal of the Marine Biol. Assoc, (n. s. vol. iii. No. 3, 1894), Mr. Holt 

 describes a new species of Ray, which he met with first on the west 



