Animals foimd i?i the Mitchelstowji Cave. 35 



a speciall}^ fruitful field for a research into cave-life. If a 

 couple of hours' collecting in one cave has yielded such 

 interesting results, what may we not expect when w^e have 

 adequately searched all the underground chambers which the 

 streams of ages have hollowed out in the limestone of our 

 great central plain ? 



EXPI^ANATIOM OF Pi, ATE 2. 



Fig. I. Porrlwtnma myops, Sim., - Male, side view, legs removed. 

 „ 2. do. - - do., front view, showing eyes and 



falces. 

 ,, 3. do. - - Female, epigyne. 



4. Gamasics atteniiatus^ Koch, - Male, dorsal view. 

 5- do. - - do., ventral view, with leg of 2nd 



pair. 



6. do. - - do., epistome. 



7. do. - - do., mandible. 



8. do. - - do., foot of leg of 2nd pair. 



9. do. - - do., „ ,, 3rd „ 



10. Lipura Wrighiii, sp.n., - Dorsal view. 



11. Sinella cavernioia, s-^Ai., - Side view. 



12. do. - - Portion of terminal joint of antenna. 



13. do. - - Foot of 3rd pair of legs. 

 13A. do. - - ,, 1st pair of legs. 



14. do. - - Apex of spring. 



15. do. - - CiHated hair from 3rd abdominal 



segment. 



16. do. - - Ciliated hair from spring. 





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A NEW I^ORM OF IRISH EARTHWORM. 



BY RKV. HII^DERIC FRIEND, F.I,.S. 



Through the kindness of Mr. Carpenter I have received a 

 specimen of an earthAvorm which has not hitherto, I believe, 

 been recorded for Ireland. It was found in Mitchelstown 

 Cave, Co. Tipperar>% and being a perfectly developed adult 

 form was readily identified. It is the golden AUurus, Allu7us 

 flavus, Friend {Natziralist, Jan., 1893, p. 20), and is worthy of 

 a brief notice. I first found this worm in the river Calder a 

 couple of miles from Carlisle, Cumberland, where its colour 

 was a rich orange yellow. It was abundant, and had the 

 girdle extending over segments 22-27, while segments 23, 24, 

 25 bore the clitellar papillae. I^ater on I found a solitary 

 specimen in a little stream near Apperley (Calverley Woods), 



