3i8 The Irish Naturalist. [Dec, 



lYIixodia palustrana in Co. WlckIow«— On Whit Monday, May 

 25tli (this year) while ascending Lugnaquilla, Co. Wicklow, I took a few 

 specimens of a tortrix, which turns out to be Mixodia palustrana. I can- 

 not find any previous report of its occurrence in Ireland. M. schulziana 

 was on the wing at the same time and place. 



George V. Hart, Howth. 



Clifton Nonpareil (Catocala fraxini) at Londonderry.— A 



specimen of this very rare moth came into Mr. R. B. Thompson's house, 



Marlborough Street, Derry, by an open window during the night. The 



date was about loth September last. Mr. Thompson brought the insect 



to me for examination, 



D. C. Campbei<i<, Londonderry. 



MOLLUSCS. 

 Helix arbustorum in Co. Derry.— It is interesting to find this 

 shell turning up again so soon in another new locality. Mr. Robert Bell, 

 a member of the B.N.F.C, while fossil-hunting in an old qiiarry at 

 Tamlaght, on the borders of the county (near Coagh, Co. T3Tone), found 

 it fairly plentiful, and brought me a few specimens. 



R. \Vei.CH, Belfast. 



Helix fusca. — I have searched carefully for this rare shell for year, 

 in likely places — mountain glens and damp woods — but without success 

 till lately, when I got one specimen on river-bank at Newcastle, Co. 

 Down, on rejectamenta after flood, and four specimens this month in 

 the ravine of Glenariff, Co. Antrim. Professor R, Tate found it many 

 years ago common in winter in certain damp woods near Belfast, usually 

 on the Wood-rush [Lttzttla sylvaticd), and it has also been recorded from 

 several mountain glens in the same district. Dr. Scharff noted it on 

 Beech trees this summer at Clonbrock, Co. Galway. 



R. WEI.CH, Belfast. 



Slug's of Ireland. — Wanted living examples of the following 

 species:— /^2wa^" inarginatus, Agriolimax IcEvis, Amalia gagateSy Arion 

 intermedins, and Geomalacus viaculosus. 



WaIvTER E. Coiyi^iNGE, E.Z.S., Mason College, Birmingham. 



BLKDS. 

 Kingfisher in Co. Dublin.— When travelling on the D.W. and 

 W. Railway last September I noticed a Kingfisher flying over the water 

 between Williamstown and Booterstown. Some years ago I have seen 

 them where the Blackrock People's Park is now, but till the occasion 

 mentioned, I have not seen one for a long time. 



Greenwood Pim, Monkstown, Dublin. 



