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seaweed-covered and studded over with Patella and sea- 

 anemones. On breaking away the layers of rock so as to 

 expose the inner surfaces of the fissures, one saw — as under 

 the stones behind Brennel Island — not only the Obisium and 

 its nests, but also Anurida, Ovatella, and Aepus, the first 

 named in vast assemblages ; and there were here in addition 

 scarlet mites, and larvae and pupae of a beetle, no doubt Aepus. 



Obisium. luaritiimuu was also found on the opposite shores 

 of the Bay near the quay at Greenane ; a single individual in 

 the act of sucking the juices of Anitrida Diarifima. Here also, 

 and elsewhere, were some marine or half-marine centipedes; 

 those I brought awa}' were — as Mr. R. I. Pocock informs me— 

 Linotaenia mai-itima', but these animals were never imme- 

 diately associated with the Obisium, and the}' seemed to 

 inhabit moister places. This was on the occasion of a rather 

 long walk along the Sneem Road, through Templenoe, as far 

 as Blackwater Bridge ; where, in the small wood near the 

 river, a fourth false-scorpion, CJithojiius tdrachelaUfs^\\2i9> found ; 

 and this animal was found also on two excursions undertaken 

 from Kenmare on the old road to Killarney. 



This road runs over the hills in a determined manner, taking 

 a remarkabh' direct course, and crossing on its way a sur- 

 prising number of rivers. At about four miles from Kenmare 

 it reaches the crest at 1,063 feet, passing here between Peakeen 

 Mountain and Knockanaguish ; and hereabout I was much 

 pleased to see a pair of Choughs feeding close to the road- 

 way. Leaving the road at this place, and scrambling to the 

 top of Knockanaguish and over towards the north-west, I came 

 down at length to the shallow Cumnienslaun Lake ; and was 

 rewarded hy finding the greater part of it occupied in charac- 

 teristic extended order by Lobelia Dortma^ina ; a plant I had 

 long wished to see, and which, as I afterwards found, was already 

 out of flower in lower waters. From Knockanaguish are seen 

 towards the north, the famous wooded hill-sides about the 

 Lakes of Killarney ; and even if one keeps to the road, as was 

 done on one of tliese occasions, this long desired countr}* 

 comes into view as soon as the crest is passed ; and after a 

 steep descent and much walking in the Ullauns valley one 

 comes at lavStto Galway's Bridge — a place of much grandeur — 

 where the united Galway's and Ullauns Rivers commence 

 their fall over the rocks into the Upper Lake. All the rocky 

 slopes hereabout are wooded, no doubt in the main natural !>', 



