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



This species is very local. In his ' Irish Testacea' Capt. Brown 

 notices " one specimen [procured] on a dry mud wall near Clo- 

 nooney," p. 529. About the roots of trees in the demesne of Wood- 

 lands near Dublin, I have, accompanied by Mr. R. Ball, obtained spe- 

 cimens, the shells of all of which, adult as well as immature, were like 

 those sent me from other localities, and according to the observa- 

 tions of authors, covered with earth. From La Bergerie, Portarling- 

 ton, I have been favoured with specimens by the Rev. B. J. Clarke. 

 In March, 1837, it was supplied me in quantity from Larne, county 

 Antrim, by Mr. James Manks. From the Falls of Clyde (Scotland), 

 I have specimens collected by W. H. Harvey, Esq. 



Animal, rather dark grey above, lighter towards the disk, and 

 when viewed under a lens appearing closely marked all over the 

 back and sides, with darker spots and markings so disposed as to 

 render it very beautiful ; disk very pale grey. Tentacula cylindrical, 

 stout, and club-shaped ; the upper of ordinary length, the lower 

 short. 



2. B. acutus, " Brug." Drap. p. 77. pi. 4. f. 29, 30; Gray, Man. 



p. 185. pi. 6. f. 67. 



B. fasciatus, Turt. Man. p. 84. f. 67. 



Turbo fasciatus, Penn. Mont. p. 346. t. 22. f. 1. 

 This is a local species, but found from north to south — from the 

 neighbourhood of the Giant's Causeway to Youghal. It is especially 

 common on marine sand-banks and pastures, but in remote inland 

 localities is likewise native. It would seem to be more common to 

 the eastern than the western portion of the island, but in the latter 

 it has occurred to me about Ballyshannon, county of Donegal. I 

 have occasionally observed this species inhabiting the crevices of 

 walls at a considerable height, as those of Howth church, county 

 Dublin. M. Michaud remarked on some Irish specimens of this 

 most variable species which I contributed to his collection, that they 

 were the B. articulatus, Lam. 



3. B.\ lubricus, " Brug." Drap. p. 75. pi. 4. f. 24 ; Turt. Man. p. 82. 



f. 65. 



name, as last quoted, but no locality is assigned to it. Having written to 

 Capt. Brown on the subject, he very kindly supplied me with the following 

 note under date of April 9, 1840 : — " 1 found the Bulimus montanus on the 

 sloping banks below an old castle about four miles from Maryborough, 

 Queen's county, the name of which I cannot remember : it is, however, on 

 the road between Maryborough and Stradbally. I also found it on a lime- 

 stone gravel ridge near Maryborough, not a mile distant. I afterwards met 

 with it among debris on the mountains of Mourne, close to the sea-shore." 

 As B. Lackamensis and B. obscurus differ little from each other, except in 

 size, and as the period when the localities just alluded to were visited by 

 this author is now so far distant, it would seem to me, judging from other 

 circumstances connected with the species, that a large variety of B. obscurus 

 may not improbably be the shell thus referred to. 



f In ignorance of the generic name — Cionella, Jeffreys; Achatina, Al- 

 der ; Zua, Leach, as adopted by Gra)', which this species should properly 

 bear, — I use the older appellation of Bulimus. 



