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place showed that it belonged to a genus not pre- 

 viously described. The species is figured and 

 described by Brady and Norman in their recently 

 published Monograph. 



Loch Fad can easily be reached by the Barone 

 Koad, or by the inland road to Kilchattan Bay. 

 The near end of the Kirk Dam is about three- 

 quarters of a mile from Rothesay, and the embank- 

 ment fully 1^ mile by either road. 



Loch Ascog. 

 This loch is much smaller than Loch Fad, from 

 which It IS about half a mile distant at its south- 

 west end. It is about a mile long, and scarcely a 

 quarter of a mile broad at the widest part The 

 shore of the upper or south-west end is of fine sand 

 and well known to local botanists as the habitat 

 ot a few interesting aquatic phanerogams, such as 

 l^obelia Dortmanna. A large portion of the shore- 

 line on both sides towards the north-east end is 

 trap-rock, or stones and rough gravel. I did not 

 observe many molluscs about or in this loth; and 

 the only forms worthy of special notice are Planorhis 

 nauUleus (type and var. albas), Zonites e.rcavcttus, and 

 Vertigo antivertigo. 



This loch can easily be reached by the inland road 

 to Kilchattan Bay, or by the road passing Folly 

 House and Braeside. 



Loch Greenan, 



or Greenan Loch, as it is called by the people in the 

 district, IS quite a small sheet of water, being only 

 about half a mile in length and scarcely two hundred 

 yards wide. It is situated about one mile north-west 



Y"^ ^i''^ °''"'' "^"^^ '^ ^""""^^y reached by the Barone 

 and St. Nmians Bay Road. 



During summer the lower or south-west end is 

 overgrown with vegetation. There are white and 

 yellow water-lilies {Nymphcea alba and .Ynphar 

 luteum) growing in abundance, on the stems and 



