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plant of fairly wide range in Central Europe. He then fully describes 

 A. ciliata, R. Br., and discusses its affinities, whiclj are with A. hirsuta 

 Scop., and especially with that form of it which is known as A. Retziana 

 Beurl , var. curtisiliqua, Rouy and Foucaud ; this form is found on the 

 seaboard of Great Britain, Sweden, and Norway. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Irish Marine Annelids. 



Prof. W. C. M'Intosh of St. Andrews, in the Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. xi., 7tli s., 1903. continued his interesting revision of the British 

 Annelids under the title of " Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory," 

 The species of Omiphis and their allies are particularly referred to in this 

 article. The Irish forms mentioned are Onuphis fragosa var., Hyalinacia 

 tubicola and H. sictila, Eunice vittata and E. philocorallia. The latter species, 

 which was first described by Miss Buchanan in Sci. Proc. R. Dublin 

 Society, 1893, from the deep water off the west coast of Ireland, has since 

 turned up in Norwegian waters. Then Prof M'Intosh also refers to 

 Lumbriconereis hibernica, L. gracilis and Arabella iricolor, all of which are 

 Irish species. 



Entomostraca observed at Lough Gur. 



The following species of Cladocera have been identified by me in a 

 gathering along the shores of L. Gur, in addition to those already re- 

 corded in the account of the joint excursion of the Dublin and Limerick 

 Field Clubs (.yw/r^, ■g.20Ci):—Simocephalus vetulus, O. F. Mull., abundant; 

 Ceriodaplmia gttadrangula, O. F. Miill., abundant ; Bbsmina longirostris, O. F. 

 Mull., a few corresponding to Plate xxxi., fig. 7, Lilljeborg's Clad. Suecice ; 

 Alona costaia, Sars. ; Chydorus sphoericuSy Miill., abundant. 



Wm. Fras. de Vismes Kans. 



Drumreaske, Monaghan. 



A rare blind Amphipod from Lough Mask. 



In a gathering, dredged lately from the deepest part of Lough Mask, I 

 noticed a very small orange-coloured" A^z^/;ar^?/j-, which I sent to Canon 

 Norman, F.R.S., for identification. He writes to me : — " You have made 

 a most interesting discovery. Niphargtis and the very closely allied 

 genera are inhabitants of wells and caves in Europe, America, Africa, 

 and Australia. The last valuable additions to my'collection of Amphi- 

 poda I received (except one species I found at the Scilly Islands in May) 

 were five species most kindly sent to me from the wells and caves of 

 France and Algeria by M. Chevreux, the well-known French authority 

 on Amphipoda. Besides the well and cave species, only two have been 



