JOURNAL OP CONCHOLOGY. l6l 



NOTES ON 



THE OCCURRENCE OF ACME LINE ATA Drap., 



IN LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE. 



By R. STAN den. 

 (Read before the Manchester Branch of the C. S. G. B. and I., Oct. loth, 1889). 



As far as I can ascertain there are no published records of 

 the occurrence of Acme lineata in either Lancashire or Cheshire, 

 but you will see, from the numerous specimens of this rare 

 species now brought before your notice, that it is not absent 

 from either county — though the record from Cheshire is but 

 meagre. It is very noteworthy that it has been taken near to 

 and on opposite sides of Manchester in past years by various 

 well-known collectors, although in but limited numbers, and — I 

 believe from a commendable desire to procure other specimens 

 fromeach locality, before making its occurrence generally known — 

 they did not proclaim the discovery beyond their own immediate 

 circle of friends. This season it has again been taken in one of 

 its old stations, and has also been discovered to exist in con- 

 siderable numbers in a new and apparently unlikely locality in 

 West Lancashire. 



As it will be interesting and useful to place the few finds of 

 bye-gone days on permanent record, I will give details of the 

 finding, and necessary authentication of each set of specimens 

 exhibited. The first record we have is of one living specimen 

 being taken in Barlow Moor Wood, by Mr. J. Ray Hardy, in 

 June, 1866. When found it was crawling over, and apparently 

 feeding upon, a mass of dead fungi attached to a rotton log in 

 a damp part of the wood, and was kept alive by Mr. Hardy for 

 some time. He has since repeatedly searched this locality, but 

 unsuccessfully, and I have also examined minutely what little 

 portion remains of this once grand hunting ground, without 

 finding Acme, although several species generally noticed in its 



