Clouded Yellow Butterfly in County DublinAuthor(s): John A. J. PalmerSource: The Irish Naturalists' Journal, Vol. 2, No. 6 (Nov., 1928), p. 111Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25531583 .

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CLAUSILiA LAM I NAT A AT CASTLECALDWELL. In this journal, vol. 1, p. 117, I recorded jtwo

new localities for this

very local and usually rare tree snail, the hfrger of the only two species of the genus Ctausitia we have in Ireland. In-'September-this year I found a

partly grown shell of C. laminata, quite fresh, on. the ruins of Castlecaldwell old castle, County Fermanagh, close to many beech trees, but failed to find it on the trees themselves in a hurried search. This new locality is

many miles away from the two recorded previously, and on the other (north) side bi Lower Lough Erne at its widest part. The snail probably lives in the old woods of the Castlecaldwell peninsula. R. J. WELCH.

Belfast.

CLOUDED YELLOW BUTTERFLY IN COUNTY CORK.

It may be of interest to record the capture of the Clouded Yehow, Gotitis edusa L., at Queenstown, on 15th September last?a female. On, the same day I saw two males and another female. I have twice before seen. Clouded Yellows at Queenstown?a male in 1925 aiid a specimen of the

pale var. helice in 1927. MARGARET TOWNSEND.

The Downs School, Seaford, Sussex.

CLOUDED YELT.OW BUTTERFLY IN COUNTY DUBLIN.

On the 9th September I took a female Colias edusa L. near Killiney Railway Station; and another, also a female, in exactly the same place, on

the 15th September. JOHN A. J. PALMER. 18 Waterloo Road, Dublin.

"HARES GOING TO GROUND."

With reference to Mr. R. Pack-Beresford's letter and our footnote, which appeared on p. 104 of last issue, it is now possible to give the opinion of Mr. Martin A. C. Hinton* Deputy Keeoer of Zoology, British Museum, to whom a skeleton and skirt had been sent,, as to the scientific status of the animal. Mr. Hinton reports?"

. . . I have now carefully compared the

specimen with the material here. I can fiiHl nothing in the skin or in the skull which would lead me to believe that your animal is not a young Irish

Hare. There is certainly no trace of rabbit in its structure. . ." . ,_ , So it would seem that County Down hares have developed a strange

habit, and we will be interested to hear if it has beetr observed in any other

part of Ir *

nd.?Ed. _^?_r\___,__.

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(See also p. 124.)

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