GASTEROPODA. 281 



B. jnmctata, Adams (sp.) : Turt. Loudon's Mag. Nat. Hist, vol. vii. 

 p. 353. 



Obtained from three localities on the western coast — Miltown Malbay 

 (Prof. Harvey), Kilkee in the County Clare, and Bundoran (Mrs. Han- 

 cock). 



B. catena, Clark. Miltown Malbay ; rare. 



" A beautiful little species, about a line in length, marked with elegant 

 chain-like bands." Prof. W. H. Harvey. 



Genus AcT.EON. 

 A. viridis, Mont. (sp.). 

 With a letter dated from Glandore House (County Cork), August 23rd, 

 1844, Professor Allman sent me a small phial containing specimens of this 

 Actceoti, remarking that he had just taken it there in considerable num- 

 bers. He subsequently, at the meeting of the British Association at 

 York, gave an admirable account of the anatomy of the species, illustrated 

 by drawings of remarkable beauty, executed by his sister, Miss Allman. 

 About the same time the Rev. Mr. Landsborough informed me that he 

 had taken this species on the coast of Arran, Firth of Clyde. 



ORDER PULMONIFERA. INOPERCULATA. 



On the subject of the Conchology of Ireland, three Catalogues were 

 published within a comparatively short period : Dr. Turton's in July, 1S16, 

 in the Dublin Examiner, or Monthly Miscellany of Science, Literature, 

 and Art ; Capt. Brown's, in the second volume of the Wernerian Memoirs 

 in 1818 ; and in this same year a third appeared in the Appendix to Walsh 

 and Whitelaw's History of Dublin, from the pen of M. J. O'Kelly, Esq., of 

 that city. The species of land and fresh-water MoUusca enumerated in 

 these three Catalogues are much the same, and about fifty in number. In 

 the subsequent works of Brown and Turton a few more species were added. 

 To Bryce's Tables of Simple Minerals, Rocks, and Shells, found in three 

 of the northern counties, published in 1831, Mr. Hyndman contributed 

 two species hitherto unnoticed. In the London and Edinburgh Philoso- 

 phical Magazine for 1834 (p. 300), about thirty additional species were 

 made known by myself ; in a paper entitled Additions to the Fauna of 

 Ireland, published in the Annals for last March, I noticed a few more ; 

 and in the present communication there are two species previously unre- 

 corded. I shall here, for the sake of brevity, avoid entering into detail 

 respecting any of the species thus alluded to, but shall correct in its 

 proper place in the following paper, in so far as my information extends, 

 every error, either of others or of my own. 



The order in which the genera and species appear in Mr. Gray's edition 

 of Turton's Manual of the Land and Fresh-water Shells of the British 

 Islands is adopted. 



