110 Mr. W. Thompson’s Catalogue of the Land and 
This species is very local. In his ‘ Irish Testacea’ Capt. Brown 
notices ‘‘one specimen [procured] on a dry mud wall near Clo- 
nooney,” p.529. About the roots of trees in the demesne of Wood- 
lands near Dublin, I have, accompanied by Mr. R. Ball, obtained spe- 
cimens, the shells of all of which, adult as well as immature, were like 
those sent me from other localities, and according to the observa- 
tions of authors, covered with earth. From La Bergerie, Portarling- 
ton, I have been favoured with specimens by the Rey. B. J. Clarke. 
In March, 1837, it was supplied me in quantity from Larne, county 
Antrim, by Mr. James Manks. From the Falls of Clyde (Scotland), 
I have specimens collected by W. H. Harvey, Esq. 
Animal, rather dark grey above, lighter towards the disk, and 
when viewed under a lens appearing closely marked all over the 
back and sides, with darker spots and markings so disposed as to 
render it very beautiful; disk very pale grey. Tentacula cylindrical, 
stout, and club-shaped; the upper of ordinary length, the lower 
short. 
2. B. acutus, “« Brug.” Drap. p. 77. pl. 4. f. 29, 30; Gray, Man. 
p. 185. pl. 6. f. 67. 
B. fasciatus, Turt. Man. p. 84. f. 67. : 
Turbo fasciatus, Penn. Mont. p. 346. t. 22. f. 1. 
This is a local species, but found from north to south—from the 
neighbourhood of the Giant’s Causeway to Youghal. It is especially - 
common on marine sand-banks and pastures, but in remote inland 
localities is likewise native. It would seem to be more common to 
the eastern than the western portion of the island, but in the latter 
it has occurred to me about Ballyshannon, county of Donegal. I 
have occasionally observed this species inhabiting the crevices of 
walls at a considerable height, as those of Howth church, county 
Dublin. M. Michaud remarked on some Irish specimens of this 
most variable species which I contributed to his collection, that they 
were the B. articulatus, Lam. 
3. B.t lubricus, “ Brug.” Drap. p. 75. a 4.f.24; Turt. Man. p. 82. 
f. 65. 
name, as last quoted, but no locality is assigned to it. Having written to 
Capt. ‘Brown on the subject, he very kindly supplied me with the following 
note under date of April 9, 1840 :—* I found the Bulimus montanus on the 
sloping banks below an ‘old castle about four miles from Maryborough, 
Queen’s county, the name of which I cannot remember : it is, however, on 
the road between Maryborough and Stradbally. I also found it on a lime- 
stone gravel ridge near Maryborough, not a mile distant. I afterwards met 
with it among debris on the mountains of Mourne, close to the sea-shore.”’ 
As B. Lackamensis and B. obscurus differ little from each other, except in 
size, and as the period when the localities just alluded to were visited by 
this author is now so far distant, it would seem to me, judging from other 
circumstances connected with the species, that a large variety of B. obscurus 
may not improbably be the shell thus referred to. 
+ In ignorance of the generic name—Cionella, Jeffreys; Achatina, Al- 
der; Zua, Leach, as adopted by Gray, which this species should properly 
bear,—I use the older appellation of Bulimus. 
