1 62 The Irish Naturatist, [ J ur y, 



The rough north -east wind and rough broken weather between the 7th 

 and 20th of April interfered very much with the earl}' arrival of our 

 migrant birds. Is there any record of the Fieldfare breeding in Co. 

 Tipperary ? I believe there are some pairs breeding here at present in 

 some Scotch firs. 



For the past week (May ist-6th) the Mayfly or Green Drake has been 

 showing up on Lough Derg, so that the regular rise may happen any 

 moment. I find that the Orange Tip butterfly hatches out in this 

 locality, as a rule, the week before the the full rise of the Mayfly, and the 

 Orange Tip has been fairly numerous the past week. The Brimstone 

 Butterfly comes out with the Mayfly, and I have already seen several on 

 the wing. The Small White, Green-veined White W T ood Argus and 

 Speckled Wall Butterflies are also plentiful the past week, with many 

 Small Tortoise-shells here and there, probably hibernated specimens, 

 though a few looked very fresh and bright. I have also seen a few Pea- 

 cock Butterflies, but they must be last year's brood. 



Why do not some of the Field Clubs pay a visit to North Tipperary 

 which is an interesting district, and but little known to Irish naturalists? 



MlCHAEI, GEEESON. 



Nenagh. 



WORMS. 



Irish Worms Wanted. 



I am almost ever}' day getting new species of small worms from 



gardeners, florists, and others in England. I wish Irish workers could 



be prevailed on to send me similar material. White worms now abound 



in manure, leaf-mould, bulbs, &c, and I have no doubt there are many 



new species yet to be discovered if only workers would send material. 



Hiederic Friend. 

 Ocker Hill, Tipton: 



CRUSTACEA. 



Irish Crustacea. 



In the current volume of the Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), iii., 1S99, 

 Canon A. M. Norman publishes (pp. 70-78) a valuable annotated list of 

 the British Land Isopoda. Several additional species have been found 

 in England since Dr. Scharff 's paper on the British and Irish Woodlice 

 was published in our pages (vol. iii., pp. 4-7 ; 25-9.) Another paper in the 

 same volume of the Annals (pp. 317-40) by the same author, on British 

 Isopoda Chelifera, contains the records of several species taken in Irish 

 waters in recent years, and the complete survey of their British and general 

 distribution is of great value, as also the very complete bibliography. 



Mr. W. T. Caiman has contributed to the same volume (pp. 27-39) a 

 paper on the British Pandalidae, in which he gives additional details on 

 the structure of Pandalus propinqutts and P. leptorhynchus, G. O. Sars, which 

 were recorded by him from the S.W. coast of Ireland in the Trans. R.I. A., 

 vol. xxxi., 1896. These species have now been found in Scottish waters. 

 The latter is in future to be known as P. Bonnierii, Caullery. 



