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' Sweeping ' with a canvas net — ostensibly for Coleoptera — amongst 

 the low-lying ivy, and patches of bracken, was attended with some 

 surprising and entirely unexpected results. Bracken is usually passed 

 by as an unpromising situation for shells, but I found, on dashing the 

 net through the fronds, that they swarmed with Vertigo edentula, nearly 

 all of them juvenile, with but three or four whorls to their shells; 

 this species also occurred in considerable numbers amongst the ivy in 

 company with Helix hispida, H rufescens, and H. aculeata. Various 

 kinds of fungi abounded in the wood, and upon these numbers of 

 Arion hortensis and A. circumscriptus were observed feeding — a large 

 specimen of the Stinkhorn {Phallus impudicus) had had its stem eaten 

 through by these two slugs, causing it to fall over. Arion ater was 

 abundant everywhere, but no varieties were noticed. Lhnax 

 arborum was common on rotten tree stumps. It is noteworthy that I 

 did not see a single example of the usually omnipresent Agriolimax 

 agrestis anywhere in the district. Most of the low mossy walls 

 throughout the district swarm with Pupa cylindracea and Clausilia 

 perversa ; Mr. Ward obtained some charming photographs ot the latter 

 in situ, feeding upon the moss and lichen. There is a small colony of 

 Balea perversa on a wall on the Windermere road, which, but for the 

 wet causing the animals to leave the shelter of the crannies and come 

 out to feed, we should probably have overlooked. From a patch of 

 Marchantia, growing in a characteristic situation, I obtained several 

 specimens of Acme lineata, all of typical form : some living, and some 

 dead. After passing through the wood, we followed the mountain 

 path leading to the ' Hospice ' until we came to a large expanse of 

 ' limestone pavement,' intersected with innumerable fissures filled with 

 beautiful ferns and creeping plants, and dotted over with heavily 

 fruited juniper bushes. On beating the junipers, many immature 

 specimens of Helix nemoralis and H. rufescens tumbled into the net, 

 and a careful examination of the fissures immediately below this 

 unlikely habitat resulted in the discovery of many other young shells 

 of both species, together with a few much weathered adult indi- 

 viduals and a quantity of dead shells. 



Paludestrina jenkinsi Smith in two new Irish localities.— Mr. R. Welch, 

 of Belfast, has sent me some specimens of this species, which he found at Ken- 

 mare, in a little stream running into the tidal river at the head of the estuary. 

 They are all uncarinated, and smaller and more slender shells than those from the 

 Thames, some of the adults measuring not more than 3*55 mm. in altitude, while 

 typical specimens measure 5*25 mm. Baltic timber was imported at Kenmare till 

 twenty years ago. Mr. Welch has also sent me specimens of this species taken 

 by himself within half a mile of Newry in marsh drains. — Lionel E. Adams, 

 Stafford. {Read before the Society, June 8th, 1898). 



