of the North of Ireland. 83 



Emarglnula fissura, Linne. 



Common off the South Antrim coast, living in depths varying from 5 

 fathoms in Belfast Lough to 90 fathoms near the Maiden Rocks— Hyndman ; 

 it -was not taken alive in Strangford Lough, but was common in a dead state 

 — Dickie (sub E. reticulata). Thrown up by the tide on sandy beaches at 

 Castlerock and Magilligan, Co. Derry, and Newcastle, Co. Down — R.L1.P. 



var. elata. Jeffreys records this variety, which is larger, more solid, and 

 much higher than the typical form, as taken by him at " Larne near Belfast." 



Emargrinula rosea, Bell. 



Hyndman states that this shell was dredged, in a dead state, by Mr. Waller 

 on the Turbot Bank. It is entirely a southern form, inhabiting, as a British 

 species, the Channel Islands and South of England coasts, and its occurrence 

 here as a native would be, to say the least of it, highly improbable. 



Emarg-iaula crassa, J. Sowerby. 



Very rare, living in 60 fathoms off the Copeland Islands ; dead in shallower 

 water in the same vicinity, and on the Turbot Bank, and in 70-100 fathoms 

 near the Maidens— Hyndman. Dredged alive off the Maidens— Mr. 

 Swanston. It is a species of great beauty and rarity, inhabiting rocky 

 ground in deep water, where it is almost inaccessible to the dredge. 



Flssurella Graeca, Linne. 



"On all the Irish coasts" — Thompson. Living sparingly in 10 to 25 

 fathoms at various points of the Antrim and Down coasts — Hyndman, and 

 Dickie (sub F. reticulata). Portrush— Miss Richardson. Magilligan and 

 Castlerock, Co. Derry, dead— R.L1.P. 



Capulus Hungraricus, Linne. 



"Generally distributed"— Thompson (C. Ungaricus). Not uncommon, 

 living on stones and oyster shells in 10 to 20 fathoms, off Belfast Lough and 

 Larne. In a dead state it has been dredged by Dickie in Strangford Lough, 

 and by Hyndman in the deepest water off the Maidens (100 fathoms). 

 Rather worn shells are thrown ashore by the tide at Magilligan and New- 

 castle — R.L1.P. Hyndman and Dickie mention it under Lamarck's generic 

 name of Pileopsis. Locally called " fool's cap." 



[Haliotis tuberculata, Linne. 



" ' Dredged near Groomsport, Co. Down, Oct. 1811,' Templeton, MSS." — 

 Thompson. The two specimens affirmed to have been there obtained are 

 preserved in the Belfast Museum, on a card which bears the following 

 manuscript note by Mr. Robert Templeton: — "These are the two haliotes 

 which rank this shell as a native of Ireland. They were got by the late John 

 Templeton, Esq., I believe on the Co. Down shore— R. T." Jeffreys dis- 

 misses this and other records with very little ceremony — "the Irish localities 

 must have been from hearsay, and are manifestly wrong." It would appear 

 probable that the Groomsport specimens were actually obtained there, for 



