324 *rhe Irish Naturalist. December, 



Colias edusa in West Kerry. 



A number of " Clouded Yellow' Butterflies have beeu seen on the 

 island during September, and several were taken near Cahirciveen, on 

 the mainland. It is just three years since these butterflies were seen 

 (in August, 1899). They are not so numerous this year as they were 

 then. 



M. J. Dei,ap. 



Valentia Island. 



Coecilianella acicula in Co. Dublin. 



Mr. Grierson may like to know that I found a number of dead speci- 

 mens of CcccilianeUa acicula last April close to the limestone quarry of 

 Feltrim, 7^ miles north of Dublin. They were all on the surface in 

 chinks of rock on the side of an exposed hill. They appeared to have 

 been wind-blown, as dead shells of several other species shared the 

 " pockets " formed by the rock crevices. This quarry is in the Lower 

 Limestone of the Carboniferous series, and the rock is not dolomitised. 



A. L. Massy. 

 Malahide. 



Scalariform Helix nemoralis. 



Mr. R. Welch publishes an interesting paper on this subject in the 

 October number of the /oumalof Conchology. A photographic plate which 

 accompanies the paper shows a graduated series of twenty specimens, 

 varying from a mere high- spired form to one 34 mm. high. 



Bed-throated Pipit in Ireland. 



In the Zoologist {ox August, Mr. F. Coburu writes that the record of this 

 species for Ireland must for the present rest upon the specimen shot by 

 him on Achill Island, May 25th, 1895, as there is some doubt about the 

 Donegal bird ; the Donegal pipits are under investigation by him. 



Cirl Bunting in Ireland. 



On Saturday, August 2nd, within half a mile of Dunfauaghy, Co 

 Donegal, I watched for some time an adult specimen of the Cirl Bunt- 

 ing {Emberiza c iritis). The bird was on some gorse by the side of the 

 road, and allowed me to remain, about ten yards away, sufficiently long 

 to point out to my wife, who was with me at the time, the diff'ereuce 

 between it and citrinella. I may add that the Cirl Bunting is a bird with 

 which I am very well acquainted, and in this case was first attracted 

 by its note. This appears to be the first record for Ireland — H. E. 

 Howard (in Zoologist for September). 



