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The Irish Naturalist. 



August, 



Milax gagates Drap. — Rather rare. The habitats of this species are usually 

 more remote from human influence than those of 3/. Sowerbyi. It 

 occurs by the seashore at Kinvarra and Aughinish, and inland at Gort, 

 Gx)le, BaUinasloe, and Portunma. Var. plumbea is the prevailing 

 form ; var. rava was taken at Woodford, where it probably is an 

 introduction. 



Vitrina pellucida Mull. — ^^■idely distributed, but nowhere abundant. A 

 rather nat form, probably var. depressittscula, \va5 found in woods at 

 Coole. 



Hyalinia lueida Drap. — A few specimens in the garden at Portumna 

 Castle, and one dead shell in river drift at Portumna bridge. Not 

 native in South Galway. 



H. cellaria Miill. — Abundant throughout the di\-ision. The prevailing 

 form is the large Irish one, Vitrea hibernica Kennard, of which fine 

 examples measuring 13 to 14 mm. diameter were taken at Gort, 

 Kinvarra, and Kiltiernan. The var. compacta ( = V. Scharffi Kennard) 

 occurs at Portumna and Dalystown. 



The white form, var. albina is plentiful at Dunsandle, and occurs 

 also in the Woodford woods. A remarkable woodland form lives 

 in an old wood at Woodford, the shells being of a pale fawn colour, 

 ver\- large and high-spired. It is figured in Mr. Stelfox's Irish list 

 (PL VII., figs. 51 and 52). Specimens almost identical with these 

 were collected by Mr. R. Welch in old woods at Glencar, Co. Sligo. 



H. alliarla Miller. — A common species in woods, on moss-covered trees, 

 walls, and rocks in ever\- locality \'isited. Fine specimens somewhat 

 resembling Hy. helvetica occur in the Woodford woods. A pale flat- 

 shelled form was found on limestone rocks at Coole and other places. 



Var. viridula is scarce, it occurs at GarbaUy, Dal\-stown, and 

 Woodford. An opaque white form was taken on the seashore just 

 above hiE:h-water mark at Kinvarra, 



H. nitidula Drap. — Generally distributed, but nowhere abundanf, the 

 small form — var. niUns, prevailing. Two pretty forms of the white 

 \-ar. helmi occur, one, of which I found a large colony on Church 

 Island in Lough Derg, is a rather large opaque waxy-looking shell, 

 the other is smaller, more compact, and semi-transparent, it is fairly 

 plentiful in the woods at Woodford. 



H. pura Alder. — Widely distributed in woods and damp places. The 

 t}-pical white form is frequent in the Woodford district, the var. 

 >::::d:sa prevails elsewhere. 



H. radiatula Alder. — Frequent in woods and other damp places, par- 

 ticularly abundant along the shores of Lough Derg, L. Rea, L. Coole, 

 and L. Cutra. Var. viridiscenti-alba near Portumna, Woodford, 

 and Aughinish. 



H. crystallina Miill. — Common in woods and damp places throughout 

 the di\-ision. Var. contracia is frequent : I have noticed it at 

 Portumna, Coole, Woodford, and Loughrea. 



Zonitoides nitidus MuU. — Common on lake shores, in marshes and by 

 the sides of ditches in all parts of the vice-county. 



