24 Mr. W. Thompson's Catalogue of the Land and 



Tipperary, " I have found both varieties of H. pulchella in high and 

 and dry grounds as well as damp and low*." 



7. Helix fusca, Mont. p. 424. t. 13. f. 1 ; Gray, Man. p. 147f - pi. 4. 

 f. 36. 



This handsome species was noticed by Turton as Irish, but merely 

 in the words "woods in Dublin." (Conch. Diet. p. 61.) It is found 

 in the north, east, west, and south, but in King's County and Tip- 

 perary has not been met with by my correspondents. As this spe- 

 cies, though widely distributed, is by no means common, the follow- 

 ing habitats may be enumerated. Glens in the Belfast mountains 

 and Drumnasole, county Antrim ; Florence Court, county Ferma- 

 nagh, W. T. Altadawan, county Tyrone, Edward Waller, Esq. ; 

 Kilruddery demesne, county Wicklow, T. W. Warren, Esq. ; Mo- 

 nivea, county Galway, Rev. Benj. J. Clarke; "near Limerick once," 

 W. H. Harvey, EsqJ. ; Youngrove near Youghal, Miss Ball ; Duns- 

 combe Wood near Cork, Miss Hincks : in this locality the Rev. T. 

 Hincks, who has supplied me with very fine specimens, remarks that 

 it is abundant. The following notes are perhaps not irrelevantly 

 introduced. Dec. 16, 1833. — Although several times before in Colin 

 Glen near Belfast, in search of Mollusca, I today for the first time, 

 in consequence of its somewhat peculiar haunts, obtained specimens 

 of the H. fusca, and of them about two dozen. The ground was 

 saturated with moisture, and they were all briskly traversing the 

 rich green leaves of the Luzula sylvatica, and one or two other plants 

 of similar foliage. The animal is much elongated, and moves about 

 with considerably greater rapidity than any Helix I have seen ; its 

 colour is uniform, but in different individuals varying from " wine- 

 yellow" to blackish-grey § ; tentaculaof the latter colour, the longer 

 pair in the adult animal 2^- lines in length ; from their base a black 

 line extends along the back for 3 lines. Dec. 10, 1837. — In Colin 

 Glen today I obtained upwards of thirty of these Helices. The 

 ground was wet, but there had been no rain in the preceding night, 

 and consequently they were not found (with a very few exceptions) 

 on the Luzula, but were instead lying sheltered and quiescent be- 



* Helix Cantiana, Mont. p. 422. pi. 13. f. I ; Gray, Man. p. 144. pi. 3. 

 f. 26. 



Is in Turton's catalogue of Irish Shells stated to have been found in 

 "hedges and box borders about Dublin," and in his Conchological Dictio- 

 nary " Cork" is noticed as a habitat. I have not seen Irish specimens of 

 this Helix, nor is it known to any naturalist with whom I have communi- 

 cated to have been ever found about Cork, Dublin, or elsewhere in Ireland. 

 From the two localities just named I have seen specimens of H. virgata 

 without bands, and coloured similarly to //. Cantiana, and being much de- 

 pressed, closely approaching it in form ; they might thus possibly at a cur- 

 sory view be passed over as immature individuals of this species. 



f The two wood-cuts in this page are very characteristic. 



J From Mr. Harvey 1 have specimens which he collected at the Falls of 

 Clvde, Lanarkshire ; near Ballantrae, Ayrshire, it has occurred to myself. 



§ On extracting the animals the shells were found to be all of the same 

 amber hue. 



