Mollusca on the Great Saltee IslandAuthor(s): R. A. PhillipsSource: The Irish Naturalist, Vol. 23, No. 10 (Oct., 1914), pp. 226-227Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25524290 .

Accessed: 10/06/2014 11:26

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 ofcontent in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new formsof scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.

.

Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd. is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The IrishNaturalist.

http://www.jstor.org

This content downloaded from 188.72.96.122 on Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:26:06 AMAll use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

226 The Irish Naturalist* October,

a curious penchant for entering houses and in many cases causes groat consternation by its entry. I heard of one case where a whole household save one more courageous man fled before the advent, of one of these

moths. The aforesaid man not only faced the intruder, but captured it,

put it in a paper bag, and sent it to me )

Chaerocampa porcellus, L., and C. elpenov, L.?Specimens of these hand some moths were sent to me in June by Mrs. Trinder. They had flown into the rectory at Rossnowlagh, Co. Donegal, and had been captured by

her and very kindly sent to me. The former, according to Mr. Kane's

Catalogue, seems to have been chiefly found in the more southern parts of the county. I took it here, but I do not know of any record of its

occurrence in Donegal.

Macroglossa bombyliforrnis, Esp.?I received an example of this moth

from Wakefield Richardson, Esq., which he had taken at the Wood House;

Bessbrook, Co. Armagh, on May 28th, 1914. He tells me that he has taken

its congener, M* fuciformis. in Co. Louth, but as I have not seen the

specimens I cannot vouch for the correctness of his determination, and

as Mr. Kane says it has never been obtained in Ireland, caution is necessary,

Hyponomeuta padi, Zell. Sta.?-I was sent a nest of the larvae of this

moth by Miss Gertrude Alexander, which she had found at Newcastle, Co.

Down, on a tree which, as well as I could make out, was some species of

Prunus. The larvae duly spun up and moths began to emerge on July 12th, Along with them were a couple of species of Ichneumon flies, to

which I hope to refer in a future communication. I have not met with

this species before, though I have taken its congener, H. cognagellus, H., at Loughbrickland, Co. Down, and reared it from larvae found in Spindle

tree, near Tanderagee, Co. Armagh.

Plutella cruciferarum, Zell* Sta.?Larvae of this moth occurred rather

too plentifully on cabbage in my fields this summer. The moths began to

emerge on July 19th. The larvae lived in little webs, and eat holes in the

cabbage leaves. Professor Carpenter, Economic Proceedings R.D.S., 190 i

and 1907, reports attacks on this moth on turnips, to which it occasions

great damage. W. F. Johnson.

Poyntzpass.

Mollusca on the Great Saltee Island.

On June 21st, in company with some friends, and in very dry weather,

I spent a few hours on the Greater Saltee Island. The object oi our visit

was to see the seabirds which were breeding there in great numbers, so I

had very little time to collect mollusca, and the following is a list of all

I found :?Limax maximus, Agriolimax agrestis, Vitrina pellucida, Hyalinia

crystallina, Arion ater, Arion inter medius, Pyramidula rotundata, Helicella

virgata, H. intersecta, Hygromia hispida, Helix aspersa, H. nemoralis,

Cochlicopa lubriea, Pupa cylindracea, Limnaea pereger, L. truncatula,

Planorbis spirorbis, Palndestrina Jenkinsi and Pisidium pusillum. The

freshwater species, including Paludestrina Jenkinsi, were ail taken in the

This content downloaded from 188.72.96.122 on Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:26:06 AMAll use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

914. Notes. 227

outlet of a well near the house. All the shells are similar in. form to those

of the same species found on the adjacent mainland. Eleven of them are

additions to the short list published by Mr. Praeger last year (I.N., xxii.,

218). R. A. Phillips.

Cork.

Long-finned Tunny on Shore of Achill Island, Co. Mayo.

A specimen of the Long-finned Tunny (Thynnus germo, Lacep.) was

found on the shore at Dugort, Achill Island, last August, and kindly sent

to the Dublin Museum by Mr. J. R, Sheridan. A slightly larger specimen, found on the coast of Wexford in the autumn of iqoi, was described and

figured by Dr. Scharff in the Irish Naturalist (vol. ix., p. 105). This

would seem to be the only previous record of the occurrence of the Long finned Tunny on the Irish coast. The Dugort specimen measures 2 feet

from the tip of the snout to the fork of the tail, and the pectoral fin is

9 inches in length j the corresponding measurements in the Wexford

specimen being 2 feet 7 inches and 11 inches respectively.

A. R. Nichols.

National Museum, Dublin.

Long-tailed Skua in Co. Donegal.

On 30th May last Mr. J. M. Harvey saw a Long-tailed Skua, Ster

corarius parasiticus, L., at the island of Doagh, Innishowen. He had a

very powerful glass, and was able to examine it minutely. From his

description it was an adult bird.

D. C. Campbell,

Londonderry.

Richardson's Skua in Co. Sligo.

Mr. D. P. Hope Johnstone, of Laragh, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, informs

me that he observed a Richardson's Skua on Lough Arrow, on May 31st* On June 6th he also observed and photographed a Buffon's Skua, also on

Lough Arrow. This bird was "remarkably tame, and after the photo

graph had been taken, and when all the films were used, it swam up within about six feet of the boat and took a May fly on the water." I

have seen the photograph mentioned, and it is remarkably clear, though small.

Helen M. Metcalfe.

Enfield, Co. Kildare.

The Roseate Tern in Ireland.

In the current volume of the Irish Naturalist* p. 17, I recorded the

discovery of a breeding colony of Roseate Terns, Sterna Dougalli, Mont., in

Ireland last year, I regret to say that this year the birds did not return to

This content downloaded from 188.72.96.122 on Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:26:06 AMAll use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions