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confined himself to those species of rather special interest from 

 their limited range in Ireland and from the fact that they 

 are found nowhere else in the British Isles but in County Kerry 

 or the South-Western corner of County Cork. Among these 

 were — Limncea invohita Thomp., a little freshwater shell, only 

 found hitherto in one little mountain tarn on Cromaglan 

 Mountain above the Upper Lake, Killarney ; succinea oblonga, 

 one of the species of amber shells, and an excessively rare 

 species in Britain, usually found dead in river flood material 

 but of which nineteen living specimens were found by the 

 excursion party last July ; geomalacus maculosus, the spotted 

 slug of Kerry, first found there in 1842, but now known to 

 occur also in the South-Western corner of County Cork and in 

 Portugal, one of a fairly large number of animals and plants 

 whose range in Ireland and South-Western Europe seems to 

 point very clearly to a former land connection between Ireland 

 and the European Continent. Slides of these and several 

 insects were shown, including the great wolf spider idolomedes 

 fimbriatus), the wolf spider (pisaura mirabilis), making a nest 

 for its young ; the wood ant {formica rufa), and its nest of pine 

 needles and bits of grass ; with the holly-boring weevil, the 

 lobster beetle, the lobster moth, and some other species. In 

 some cases specimens of the insect were shown instead of 

 slides ; specimens of the more interesting shells collected were 

 also exhibited. 



The next paper was read by Mr. Francis Joseph Bigger, 

 M.R.I.A., dealing with the antiquities of Kerry generally, more 

 especially the ancient church of the O'Sullivans and Killma- 

 killogue and the O'Shea Church at Feaghna. The patron held 

 at the holy lake at the former place was graphically described, 

 and a full history of it given. The stations and remarkable 

 Bullan Stone at Feaghna were also the subject of illustration. 

 The other places noted were Ardea Castle, Ardfert Abbeys, 

 Gallerus Celtic Church, Kilmakedar Abbey and Church, and 

 Aghadoe Abbey and round tower. The different places men- 

 tioned were illustrated and explained by a series of beautiful 



