NOTES—MOLLUSCA. 
Testacella haliotidea at Shipley.—I have pleasure in sending age 
concerning the discovery of Zestacella haliotidea in these gardens by n 
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dates for 1891, January 22nd and 29th, February 18th, pitch: 18th and rgth, 
April 22nd and joth, May 6th and Sth, June 13th and 25th, August seer and 
September et was much surprised to find that this Bice J could endure 
in a tank into which it had fallen, for over three hours. I took it out, and after 
nd one specimen in 
Cypripedium which came from York the previous day, and although I looked 
hess I failed to find any trace of it having travelled ipa the plage upon which the 
plant stood. I was also told by a gardener, who was employed at York Nurseries 
a few years ago, that he frequently found this slug ae cd ei I pee 
him one I found here, and he knew that it was a carnivorous animal and h 
advised me to encourage it. He also said nin Rite was the only place where he 
had ever seen ei. previous to its appearance 
<i pig when he says that I pee gt Fosmees a apts 
a encuer of I have only odserved them, and hav all I could es 
encourage this s spretieohl slug. —-EDWARD SELF, The Gateas felons 
Shipley, April roth, mii 
ella satahun t Horbury.—On the 3oth March, whilst e Meging @ in 
Me 
o whom the specimen was orm at it is  otaaceblale 
T. scutulum.—W. RUSHFORTH, eo Ancy, 'Wakeleld. Aon 27th, 1892. 
ohne E—BOTANY. 
us pseudo-narcissus still at Bullcliffe Wood.—lIt is a sears 
aie t to record that the prove still occupies its old ahitat | as recorded by 
Mr. "Gissing nearly 30 years ago, viz., Bullcliffe pi I found a fair number of 
tg in = tit of 1891. few days ago I sent a specimen to Mr. Baker, 
This the ier oa satires -narcissus,—W. RUSHFORTH, 
Betas fen t Wakeheld, 1 Apri wae 
The Tadpole Hake at Redcar.—On the morning of the 12th Apeil I picked 
p a fish on the beach which Mr. W. Eagle Clarke confirms me in determining aS 
Raniceps trifurcus, ts Fdetiivag 3 to Clarke and Roebuck’s ‘ Vertebrate Fauna of 
Yorkshire,’ I fed Redcar is the only place in Yorkshire where the fish has 
occurred, and t Gy is  cireaes rare, only a couple of instances being mentioned, 
the present nag the third.—T. H. NeLson, Redcar, April 12th, 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
reland has vas hitherto possessed a journal specially devoted to its own 
ned History, and we are, therefore, glad to welcome the first numbe 
‘Trish Natur — T his journal is to cial ois of the Royal Zoological 
Society o nd, Dublin Microscopical Club, Belfast Natural His 
History an 
Philosophical "Societ’, Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club, Dublin Naturalists’ Field 
lub, Armagh Natural History and Philosophical Society, and Cork Naturalists’ 
€ . cor in i 
fauna and the Sister Isle. Th t Pp es well, 
containing articles by gaanges naturalists on Recent Additions to the List of 
Trish Birds, Seaweed est C of Ireland, The Crossbill (Zox 
ill (Loxta 
curvirostra L.) in Teen. ‘County Dublin, past and present, and the Coleoptera 
of the Neighbourhood of Armagh ; and, in addition to these, several short notes 
and accounts of the Pr roceatings of the several Societies already mention ned. __ 
Naturalist, 
