Aster laevis at Lough Neagh, Co. TyroneAuthor(s): Thomas GreerSource: The Irish Naturalist, Vol. 32, No. 10 (Oct., 1923), p. 107Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25525284 .

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1923. Notes. 107

sagittatus, the beaks of which, according to the Norwegian naturalist

Collett, are frequently found in its stomach. This cephalopod is a pelagic form and may often be seen at the surface by night, fifty miles or so off

the west coast of Ireland, probably on its northern migration. It seems

likely that the specimens of the Opah which come ashore in the British

Isles are individuals which in the course of their northerly migration have

lost their way and wandered into shallow water of low salinity where their

apparent helplessness may be due to their unaccustomed surroundings.

Fisheries Office, Dublin. G. P. Farran.

The Pearl-bordered Fritillary.

Mr. R. A. Phillips is to be congratulated in adding Argynnis Euphrosyne to the list of Irish butterflies. From the fact that it has been overlooked

for so long, it does not necessarily follow that its Irish distribution must

be very local, when one considers that the late Mr. Wm. F. de V. Kane

worked and investigated the lepidoptera in the neighbourhood of Favour

Royal in this county for many years, and yet passed over Melitaea aurinia,

which has since been found in the locality. The chance discovery of the

larvae of this species on the Erris peninsula, Co. Mayo, was responsible for the addition of this local little butterfly to the county list.

Stewartstown. Thomas Greer.

Aster laevis at Lough Neagh, Co. Tyrone.

A few years ago I observed this plant sparingly in the marshy meadows

which fringe the western shore of the lough for miles. Last month

accompanied by my friend Dr. R. J. Spencer, when searching for Spiranthes

Romanzoffiana, we found large masses of the Aster in full bloom, and

extending along the shore for over half a mile, and also on some of the

small islets in the lough. Other plants found at the same time were

Ranunculus Flammula and Epilobium angustifolium. the latter plentiful in meadows reclaimed from the bog.

Stewartstown. Thomas Greer,

Beech Fern in Co. Cavan.

On 24th June last I found Polypodium Phegopteris in considerable

quantity within a limited area at Bruce Hill, Co, Cavan, 600 feet elevation.

Dundee. G. G. Blackwood.

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