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Death's-Head Hawk-Moth in County Meath Author(s): A. W. Stelfox Source: The Irish Naturalists' Journal, Vol. 2, No. 9 (May, 1929), p. 182 Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25531651 . Accessed: 15/06/2014 04:14 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd. is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Irish Naturalists' Journal. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 195.34.79.223 on Sun, 15 Jun 2014 04:14:14 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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Death's-Head Hawk-Moth in County MeathAuthor(s): A. W. StelfoxSource: The Irish Naturalists' Journal, Vol. 2, No. 9 (May, 1929), p. 182Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25531651 .

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to release his grasp; then I put them both back in the water and the fish

recovered. In a pond of this size it is impossible that probably 100,000

tadpoles can reach maturity; can any reader say with knowledge, ii such

fish as Orfe, Minnow, Rudd and Gudgeon eat young tadpoles? I hope thev do. "

Belfast, H. C. LAWLOR.

NEW IRISH DRAGONFLY RECORD. A new record of Odoiuvta for Ireland has been established by the capture

of four male specimens of Sympetrum sanguine um Mull., in August, 1928, by the undersigned, at a pond in the deer-park at Castle Mary, Cloyne, County Cork.

20 Pont, Street, London S.W.I. CYNTHIA E. LONGFIELD.

AN EARLY RED ADMIRAL. I have to report seeing a very tattered specimen of this butterfly on

29th March last, about a mile north of Wexford town. During a couple of hours I saw it several times about the same place, easily recognising it

by the gap in one of the hind wings. Dublin. A. W. STELFOX.

DEATH'S HEAD HAWK-MOTH IN COUNTY MEATH. What appears to have been a freshly emerged Death's-head Hawk-moth

was found in the goods department of the Kells railway station, in a dying condition, during August, 1928, and has just been presented to the National

Museum by Mr, H. O'Donnell, of Kells. National Museum, Dublin. A. W. STELFOX.

SMALL EGGAR MOTH TN COUNTY FERMANAGH. In I.N.J., vol. II., p. 55, I gave an account of Small Eggar Moths

emerging after two winters spent in the cocoons. The box containing the

remaining cocoons was kept in the same place, in a cold greenhouse, to see

if more moths would come out. On 15th March last two moths were found to have emerged, one male and one female; on 17th, five more appeared (2 males, and 3 females), and on 19th one male. Since, no more have

appeared. This makes a total of eight that have emerged after three winters. Orissa, Marlborough Park, Belfast, W. M. CRAWFORD.

THE POND SNAIL. LIMN.EA GLABRA. REDISCOVERED IN IRELAND.

In.the thircT week of April, 1928, while collecting freshwater snails of various species,'in connexion with .certain investigations on Liver Fluke in

sheep, which are being carried on. in this department, I found an extensive

colony of a species of Limnasa which was new to me. They, were discovered in a ditch close to the stream which flows under Bally mac&r bridge, on the

main road between New Ross and Wexford. The ditch is ft few hundred

yards' above this bridge, and contains normally a small stream, but the

previous "wet weather had increased the-amount of water in it-very consider

ably. It -was-iull of long grass, 'some:water weeds, etc. The Limnaea were

present in very large numbers,- and all stages, from very young to adult, were found. Mr. A. W. Stelfox, of the National Museum, very kindly

identified the snails as Limnaa glabra. GEHALD1NE ROCHE.

Zoological Department, University -College, Dublin.

Miss Roche is to be congratulated on the finding of this snail in Co. Wex ford. Her discovery settles once and for all time the question whether this species occurs in Ireland. Readers interested in the subject wiU remember that there are vague old records of this snail having been taken about Cork

one hundred years ago, but that since that time the only evidence tending to confirm the records is based on the discovery of examples in the collection ofithe-late Lord de Tabley, on its being presented to the Manchester JVfuseum in 1918. Reference to Lprcl de Tabley's specimens wall be found in The

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