164 The Irish Naturalist. September, 191 1 



County Dublin Plants. 



On June 28th, while llower hunting on Kippure Mountain, we came 

 on about a dozen or even more plants of Var.cinium Oxycoccos growing 

 high up near the top of the bog, on the north side of the mountain. As 

 near as I can gather, we must have been about 1,700 feet up. Seeing 

 by Mr. Colgan's book that the flower had not been found there before, 

 I wrote and told him of our lind, and he suggested I slioidd write to the 

 Irish Naturalist. Again, on June 30th, we found the plant growing on 

 Seefingan Mountain, almost at the summit, on the northern side. There 

 were fewer plants there than on Kippure. I had no aneroid with me on 

 those two days, so the heights are not certain, but I have since got one 

 and have been very nearly in the same places. Also in the spring I found 

 Helleborus fcetidus, growing along a hedge, at right angles to the main 

 north road, about one mile south of Julianstown. It looked quite wild 

 there, and Avas well established all along the hedge. 



Swords, Co. Dublin. 



J. O'Callaghan. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Caricea means in Co. Donegal. 



When dredging in lakes, land insects are not infrequently found on or 

 among the contents of the dredge after they have been turned out on grass 

 or heather where presumably the animals have been lying concealed until 

 disturbed by the debris. In this way, in July, when dredging in Lough 

 Aghvog, Co. Donegal, I detained a fly which was identified at the British 

 Museum as a female, specimen of Caricea means Mg. 



Herbert Trevei.van. 



Naval and Mihtary Club, 

 London, W. 



Local name for the Ghost Moth. 



I was talking to a young man in Ncwry who takes some interest in 

 natural history, and he described to me a moth which he said as a boy 

 he often ran after and which was evidently the Ghost Moth (Hcpialus 

 humuli). He told me that where he then lived it was called the " Seven 

 Sleepers." His home is in Co. Antrim, I think near Baliymena. He 

 said that his father and everyone who spoke of the moth always called it 

 by this name, so it is evidently a local name for this moth. I don't see 

 any connection between the moth and sleep, so the name is probably a 

 corruption of some older name, and it would be very interesting if this 



could be traced. 



W. F. Johnson. 

 Poyntzpass. 



