276 The Irish Naturalist, September, 



allocation. One fine specimen from the burial-ground at Old 

 Aghada was spotted very much like examples of Milax 

 (Amalia) marginatus of Draparnaud, received some time 

 ago. from the Continent, and it is not unlikely that a 

 careful anatomical examination of this specimen would 

 have established the presence of a third species of Milax 

 in Ireland, 



A number of smaller Milaces found at Blarney which, from 

 the activit3 r of their movements and the aqueous nature of 

 their slime, bore a very strong resemblance to Milax gagates, 

 were however referable to Milax Sowerbyi sub-var. i?isoliia, in 

 which form the mucus is not nearly so tenacious as in the 

 typical form of the species, which, when found adult in its 

 usual garden habitats, feels, as so well expressed by Mr. 

 Welch, like a half dried-up lump of fat. 



Among the testaceous species, one remarked that at Carrig- 

 rohane the small Hyalinia co?itracta occurred in company with 

 the larger form Hyalinia ciystallina. Though from lack of 

 demonstration of structural divergence these two forms are 

 classified together in this country, yet abroad they are (and 

 probably truly) regarded as distinct, the differential characters 

 being the smaller shell, the closer and more compact coiling 

 of the whorls, and the more minute umbilicus. 



At the same place, fine and undoubted specimens of Hyalinia 

 lucida were found, as well as examples of the large and more 

 elevated form of Hyali?iia cellaria which has so often been 

 mistaken for it, and constitutes a connecting link or inter- 

 mediate form between H. lucida and H cellaria, and is 

 evidence that here we are amidst a more primitive group in 

 which the intermediate or intergrading forms have not yet 

 been eliminated. 



The great abundance of retreating and decadent species 

 was also very noticeable, the comparative profusion and 

 apparently wide dispersal of Succinea oblonga being a remark- 

 able feature of the fauna to English collectors, who, until the 

 recent discovery in Westmoreland and its re-discovery at 

 Braunton Burrows, regarded this species as one almost im- 

 possible to collect in England in a living state. 



The presence in abundance of Hyalinia excavata, Helix 

 lamellata, Pupa a?iglica, and other so-called northern forms in 



