' 30 The Irish Nainralisl February^ 



[Helix hortensis Miiller. — Specimens from Dingle are reported {Journal 

 of Conchology, vol. xiii., p. i6o) as having been exhibited at a 

 meeting of the Conchological Society by Mr. E. Collier. Mr. Collier, 

 however, informs me that he has no examples of this species from 

 Dingle ; but that at the meeting referred to he exhibited white- 

 lipped H. nemoralis, sent to him by Mr. Welch, from the Dingle 

 promontory [Inch Sandhills]. The mistake is evidently due to a 

 slip, and need not have caused confusion but for the fact that it has 

 been copied and appears in Mr. Taylor's Mon. of the L. and F. W, 

 Moll, of the British Isles, voL iii., p. 363. Moreover on the map,, 

 plate xxix., Co. Kerry has been coloured red t indicate that Mr. 

 Taylor has seen the shells and verified the record, which appears to 

 be an error under the circumstances.] 



Cochlicopa lubrica (Miiller).— (T.) — Common throughout the low lying 

 parts of the promontory and on the Gt. Blasket, and also lives on 

 some of the cliffs to at least i ,400 feet. 



Pupa anglica (Fer.). — (T.) — On the Gt. Blasket and throughout the pro- 

 montory, where suitable conditions occur. Particularly abundant 

 in Kilcummin w^oods and in the neighbouring marshes near Strad- 

 bally. All three colour forms occur, but the pallida and alba forms 

 are confined to the shaded woodland areas or where there is a rich 

 mossy vegetation. 



P. cylindracea (Da Costa). — (T.) — SHghtly more widely distributed than 

 P. anglica, and as a rule more plentiful than the latter^ where the twO' 

 occur together. On wet cliffs and on similar spots, which appear 

 rather unfavourable to the growth of the species, the var. anconostoma 

 is generally the prevailing form. On the southern shore of Dingle 

 Harbour, by the old watch tower, I was surprised to find this dwarf 

 form and the type together, under the same stones, and apparently 

 without an intei mediate form. On this sandy, open, sunny spot 

 conditions appeared most favourable. 



P. muscorum (L.). — (T.) — Recorded by Mr. Tomlin from the Cloghane 

 district as occurring " under stones near the sea." The only two 

 habitats in which I found it alive were on the sands to the south of 

 Dingle Harbour and on Lady's Island, between Cloghane and Brandon. 

 Being unable to find Mr. Tomlin' s habitat for it, I made a special 

 journey to Lady's Island at low tide, where I was pleased to find it 

 living, as around the coast of County Down this species occurs fre- 

 quently on such islets, although it has apparently ceased to live on 

 the mainland opposite. Its extermination on the mainland in such 

 cases is probably partly due to cultivation and partly to the recent 

 inroads of the sea. Lady's Island is a very small rocky islet, covered 

 with blown sand, and is only cut off from the mainland at high tide. 



Vertigo anlivertigo (Drap.). — (T.) — Abundant in marshy places at Smerwick 

 Bay, Ventry Bay, Cloghane, and Stradbally, but not seen elsewhere. 



V. substriata Jeffreys. — (T.) — Perhaps the most widely scattered member 

 of the genus in the district, occurring from sea -level near Fermoyle 

 to an altitude of nearly 1,200 feet on Knocknabreestee cliffs, at 

 Brandon Head. Unlike the next species and V. anlivertigo it never 



