60 The Irish Naturalist. [ March, 



Magilligan and Youghal. Professor Conwentz is especially interested in 

 the history of the Yew, and recently visited Ireland to investigate the 

 past and present distribution of that plant in this country. Further 

 specimens of subfossil Yew are earnestly desired. 



Professor Coi,E lectured in Belfast on February 9 on the subject of " The 

 Volcanic North; how Ireland became an Island." There was a large 

 attendance. The lecture was arranged for by the Geological Section of 

 the Belfast Club. Mr. Praeger lectured on the same evening in Cork at 

 a combined meeting of the Literary and Scientific Society and Naturalists' 

 Field Club on the subject of the Kenmare Field Club Conference. 



We deeply regret to record the death of an old and valued member 

 of the Dublin Field Club — Mr. J. J. Downing, which took place at 

 Foxrock, on February 2nd. An obituary notice wil appear in our next 

 issue. 



ZOOLOGY. 



CRUSTACEA. 



Crustacea from the South-west Coast of Ireland. 



In a recent paper in the Trans. Lpool. Biol. Soc. (vol. xii., pp. 159-172), 

 Mr. A. O. Walker gives a list of the Malacostraca collected by him at 

 Valencia Island, Co. Kerry, in the summer of 1896, and of certain 

 specimens preserved in the Dublin Museum. Four species — /aniropsis 

 breviremis, Sars., Eurydice elegantula, Hansen, Ambasia Danielsseni, Boeck 

 and Parvipalpus capillacea, Chevreux — are recorded from British waters 

 for the first time. 



Porcelllo dllatatus, Brandt, at Dundrutn, Co. Dublin. 



When I wrote my paper on the Irish Woodlice in 1894 {Irish Naturalist, 

 vol. iii), I stated that so far I had not seen any Irish specimens of 

 Porcellio dilatatus except those obtained by the late Professor Kinahan in 

 Dublin. For the past five years I have searched in vain for this rare 

 Woodlouse in various parts of Ireland, but have recently discovered it in 

 company with Porcellio Icevis (which it greatly resembles) along the foot of 

 an old wall in my garden at Dundrum, Co. Dublin. 



Since 1894 the Rev. Mr. Kibbing also discovered it in England, viz., 

 in the Isle of Wight and in Surrey. 



R. F. SCHARPF. 



Dublin. 



