1896.] Notes. 213 



ZOOLOGY. 



CRUSTACEANS. 



Trichonlscus roscus, Koch. — This very rare wood-louse I find 



fairly plentiful among damp cinders and old bricks in a corner of m}' own 

 yard. Dr. Scharff, who verified the specimens for me, found it under 

 similar conditions in Dublin in autumn (/.A^., 1894, p. 26). 



R. Wei,CH, Belfast. 



INSECTS. 

 Vcspa norvegica, F., at Omeath, Co. Louth. — I spent June 

 25tli at Omeath, and while searching for beetles on some young fir trees, 

 I nearly ran against a wasp's nest hanging from the l:)ranch of a Larch. 

 Having retreated to a safe distance, I watched my opportunity and suc- 

 ceeded in capturing several specimens of the workers, and obtained a 

 male from another nest which had been taken close by. The yellow base 

 of the antennae showed me that I had got something different from 

 V. viilgaris, and on my return home I found that the specimens I had cap- 

 tured belonged to the above species. The wasps were too busy to be 

 vicious, for I stood only about eight feet from the nest while catching 

 them, and none attempted to attack me. 



W. F. JOHNsox, Poyntzpass. 



SPIDERS. 

 Atypus in King's Co. — Rev. Canon Russell writes that the Alypus 

 tube from King's Co., recorded in the Irish Naturalist for June, was found 

 by Mrs. Reamsbotham. 



MOLLUSCS. 



Helix arbustorum. — During a short visit to Ballycastle, North 

 Antrim, in May, I spent a day collecting at Murlough Bay, and was for- 

 tunate enough to find some fine specimens of this beautiful shell among 

 Nettles in the plantation, which I had often searched before without 

 success. Thompson recorded it from Larne, and specimens collected by 

 Waller about thirty years ago, are labelled Drumnasole (near Carnlough). 

 Dr. Scharff tells me that he does not know of any other finds later than 

 those for this district. The three other localities in which this shell was 

 lately found, are in Donegal, Armagh, and Sligo, as recorded in the Irish 

 Naturalist. 



R. \Vei.ch, Belfast. 



West of Ireland MoIIusca. — Messrs. Edward Collier and Robert 

 Standen contribute to the April number of the Journal of Conchology 

 a good paper on the mollusca collected on the Galway excursion 

 of the Field Club Union last year. Mr. Standen contributed to this 

 Journal a full list of the species found, which was published in the special 

 " Galway Conference " number (September, 1895). The present paper is 

 more detailed, and deals particularly with the species and varieties of 

 land and fresh-water shells collected on that excursion. 



