Dr. O^Bryen Bellingham on Irish Entosoa. 101 



Subgenus Necrophl^ophagus, Newport. 



1. N. longicornis. Leach, sp. 



2. — punctiventris, mihi. Yellow, head dark ferruginous ; antennae 

 yellow, scarcely three times as long as the cephalic segment ; joints 

 punctured, hairy ; labium quadrate, deeply punctured ; internal 

 margin of the mandibles bidentated ; anal appendages large, with 

 deeply impressed hairy punctures ; legs hairy, sixty- six pairs. 

 Sicily. 



Genus Geophilus, Leach. 



1. G. carpophagus. Leach. 



2. — subterraneus. Leach. 



3. — acuminatus, Leach. 



4. — rubens. Say. 



5. — barbaricus, Gervais. 

 6. } Greece. 



Genus Gonibregmatus, Newport. 

 1. G. Cumingii, Newp. Philippine Islands. 



XIV. — Catalogue of Irish EntozoajWith observations. By O'Bryen 

 Bellingham, M.D., Member of and Professor of Botany in 

 the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Member of the 

 Royal Zoological, Geological and Natural History Societies of 

 Dublin, &c. 



[Continued from Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural Histor}', vol. iv. p. 35 1 .] 



The following list of the Entozoa indigenous to Ireland (the first 

 part of which appeared some time since) is confined almost al- 

 together to the species which I have discovered and examined 

 myself, and the great majority are new to the British fauna. The 

 classification followed is that given by Rudolphi in his ^ Synopsis 

 Entozoorum,^ and adopted by Bremser and most zoologists. In the 

 nomenclature I have also followed Rudolphi ; and where species 

 are mentioned which had been discovered previously in this 

 country, I have been careful to notice the fact and to give the 

 credit to the discoverer. 



Order 1. NEMATOIDEA. 



Genus 6. Spiroptera. 



(Derived from spira, a curl or circle.) 



Body cylindrical and elastic, slightly attenuated at each extremity. 

 Mouth orbicular. Anus large, a little in front of the posterior 

 extremity. Caudal portion of the male spiral, with lateral alae, 

 between which the penis, a simple filament, projects. 



This genus was first named Acuaria by Bremser in his cata- 



