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Macroom, a place rich in dragonflies, as all the Zygopterids in 

 the list, except Lestes sponsa, occurred there, and for the most 

 part were quite common. Time did not allow me to observe 

 whether^, pulchellum or putlla was the dominant species, as I 

 only took two or three specimens of each ; but after my 

 experience in Norfolk I should expect one to be common and 

 the other scarce. /. elegans was common everywhere just as 

 it was in the Broads district of Norfolk. I did not see a single 

 iEschnid in any of the localities, nor did I find any nymphs of 

 the genus. 



SCHIZOPODA. 



BV \V. RAXKIN. 



Mr. F. Balfour Browne gave me some specimens of Neomysis 

 vulgaris and Palcemonetes varians which he took from a bog- 

 hole in which they occur in considerable quantities at Youghal, 

 Co. Cork. The bog-hole is over two miles from the sea, and 

 is not in any way connected with it. A member of the Cork 

 Field Club informed me that it is over three years since 

 portion of this bog was covered by an exceptionally high tide 

 during a storm. At present there is no trace of salt per- 

 ceptible, and all the other fauna and flora are distinctly fresh 

 water. 



I found both these species common in brackish water in 

 marshes at Aghada and Kinsale. 



Neomysis vulgaris was discovered by Vaughan Thompson 

 in the Lee estuary up to Cork and the Cove, and William 

 Thompson recorded it from Belfast Lough, but there do not 

 appear to be Irish specimens either in the National Museum 

 or at the Fisheries Office. According to Canon A. M. 

 Norman it occurs all round the British coasts in brackish 

 water. Abioad it has a very wide distribution around the 

 European Atlantic shores, in the White Sea and in the 

 Mediterranean. 



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