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Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



ENIDAE. 



Ena obscura (Miiller). 



Selix obscura, Bro^m, Mem. TVerner 

 Soc, vol. ii, p. 529, 1818. BuJimuB 

 ohscurus, Thompson, Cat. L. & F. "W. 

 iloU. of Ireland, p. 21, 1840. 

 Buliminui oiscwus, SeharfE, Irish 

 Xat., p. 109, 1892. 



WD ED LD AN 



FE TT AE DO 

 WMSL LE ^w 



EM RO CY LH 

 WGNG LF WIIME 



SG KG KD DU 

 GL NT QG CW Wl 



NK LK ST KK ^VX 

 SK MC EC WA 



WC 



Has a distribution very similar to th;it 

 of Selix hor/eiisi's, occurring more or less 

 continuously from Louth to Kilkenny 

 in the south, and S. E. Gralway and Clare 

 in the west, with two — at present — 

 isolated habitats in Sligo and Leitrim, 

 and three on the Chalk of the Antrim 

 coast. Capt. Brown reports haying 

 found a shell in flood debris near the 

 coast in the south of Co. Down, which 

 he named Selix Laclchamemis ( = Ena 

 montana Drap.) It is difSeult to 

 account for this find, as the present 

 species, to which Thompson referred 

 Brown's record, has never been seen by 

 subsequent collectors in Co. Down. 



The finding oiH. ohcura by Mr. TVeleh 

 in the deposits of the Strandhiil dunes 

 in SUgo is noteworthy. This is the 

 only fossil record so far of this species in 

 Ireland. 



STENOGYRIDAE 



Cochlicopa lubrica (Miiller). 



Selix lubrica, Brown, Mem. TVemer. 

 Soc, vol. ii, p. 529, 1818. Btilimus 

 luhricus, Thompson, Cat. L. & F. "W". 

 MoU. of Ireland, p. 22, 1840. 



WD ED LD AN 

 FE TY AR DO 

 WMSL LE MO 



EM RO GV LH 

 WG NG LF WH ME 

 SG KG KD DU 

 GL NT QG GW Wl 

 NK LK ST KK WX 

 SK MG EG WA 

 WG 



Grenerally distributed over the main- 

 land and island?. It varies consider- 

 ably in size and colour. Mr. Phillips 

 informs me that a smaller and more 

 slender form of this species is very 

 frequent in uncultivated places, and 

 apparently agrees with the var. 

 madereiuis of Lowe, which is said to 

 be the prevailing form in similar areas 

 in Madeira and Cape Verde Islands. 



Caecilioides acicula (Miiller). 



Achatiyia acicula, Thompson, Cat. L. & 

 F. W. MolL of Ireland, p. 23, 1840. 

 Coecilianella acicula, Scharff, Irish 

 Kat., p. 109, 1892. 



One of our rarest land mollusks, but 

 has a fairly conrinuous range from 

 Monaghan to Mid Cork and from 

 D«blin to "West Gralway, and is strictly 

 ealcicole in its distribution. TTe owe 

 much to Mr. Grierson for our know- 



