I90 The Irish Nahiralist. September, 



covered most of them as they lay) in an unlikely one, an earthy 

 layer at lowest level of the S.W. slope of the big dune at Strandhill. 

 They were associated with Helix ptdchella, H. hispida, Cochlicopa lubrica, 

 and Clausilia hidentata. The latter is common in Irish shell-pockets, 

 but we have never found Buliminns on or near a sandhill area. It 

 was not in any of the "pockets " sieved for Vertigos, &c., and the 

 nearest suitable habitat, Knocknarea cliff talus, is a full mile away. 

 Mr. Grierson, (/.iV., 1901, p. iii) records it from Ballysadare and 

 Lough Gill. 

 Cochlicopa lubrica, Mull. — Common in each locality worked. The 

 small red sandhill form {fusca, Moq. ?) at Raghly and Strandhill 

 dunes, and luishmurry. 



Pupa angelica, F^r.— Common but local on mossy banks, or in damp 

 parts of the woods with Acme and H. pura, usually in the moss Hypnum 

 spkndens ; Rosses Point ; Lissadill Glen among Liverworts ; Glencar 

 (Sligo) and Swiss Valley ; var. pallida with type near Tobernault ; var. 

 alba and var. pallida with type near Doonee Rock. 



Pi cyllndracca, Da Costa.— Common in all suitable habitats in both 

 counties, right up to the cave in GlenifF ; Inishmurry. Some very 

 short forms occurred on dry walls. 



P. muscorum, Miill. — Local at Raghly Strand under small flat stones 

 on the very short grassy turf; in profusion in the " pocket" material 

 sieved out at Strandhill big dune. 



Vertigo edentula, Drap. — Rare everywhere, a great contrast to the 

 large quantities we took in sweep nets and otherwise during the 

 Kerry week, 1898^ Even in the most likely places thisgave.no 

 results about Sligo. In moss at Lissadill, Hazelwood at Tobernault, 

 Rockwood, Glencar woods and Swiss Valley. Near Ballycastle, Co. 

 Antrim, it is as common in sweepings almost as in Kerry. 



V. pygmaea, Drap.— A few in most likely places ; Rosses Point, 

 Raghly, Doonfore, and Knocklane ; common in the Strandhill 

 " pockets " ; Ballysadare old church, Swiss Valley. 



V. substrlata, Jeff. — Very rare in moss, Swiss Valley ; Glencar 

 (Sligo), one of these had only one tooth on the body ; one or two 

 only in the Strandhill sievings. 



V. antlvcrtlgo, Drap. — Very rare ; Rosses Point ; Glencar, 1900. '^\ 



V. angustlor, Jeff.— Plentiful in the "pockets," Strandhill, dead as 

 usual, with one pure white specimen. It is extremely abundant in 

 the west Donegal, north Derry, and north Antrim dune pockets, 

 yet we have never found the actual living-ground anywliere. Miss 

 Warren has done so a little further west. So local and rare was this 

 species in Jeffreys' time that he only gives four localities in England 

 and \Vales(/>;7VC'(7/;t//., vol. i.) The Conch. Soc. Census, 1902, notes 



' See I.N.^ vol. vii., p. 223. 



