138 The hish Naturalht. July, 



Irish Plants. 



In ihe /ciinial of Botany for April Rev. E. S. Marshall has a note on 

 Hellcborine atroviridis from Killarney. In the same Journal for June 

 H. N. Dixon writes on a new Fissidens {F. exsul) found by I). M'Ardle 

 on pots and tubs in the palm-house at Glasnevin. and on a remarkable 

 variety of F. rnfitlus obtained by the same collector at Finglas. 



A New Irish Fungus. 



On the 15th of May, 1908, I found a specimen of Veronica Beccabnnga 

 near Bohernabreena, Co. Dublin, attacked by a parasitic fungus, but 

 time did not permit of its full investigation just then. On the 27th of 

 ]\Iay of this year I came across a specimen of Veronica seypyllifolia in 

 Howth demesne similarly attacked. On examination both species were 

 found to be infected by the parasitic fungus, Peronospo)a grisea, Ung. This 

 species has not hitherto been recorded from Ireland. 



J. Adams. 



Royal College of Science, Dublin. 



ZOOLOaY. 



Additional record of Chelifer cancroides. 



I may mention Rathmines in addition to Limerick (/.A^a/., vol. xviii. 

 page 249), as a locality for this species. On October 7, 1908, I took two 

 specimens from the legs of a house-fly {Mnsca domesticd) in this neigh- 

 bourhood. Is this a common species in Ireland .' 



Norman E. Stephens. 



79, Rathmines Road, Dublin. 



Zoropsis maculosus introduced at Limerick. 



On March 23rd last I received from Dr. George Fogerty, of Limerick, a 

 handsome adult female specimen of a large spider, which he tells me 

 was given him by Mr. Woodhouse, who found it in a bunch of bananas 

 which had been sent to his firm by a Liverpool broker and imported by 

 him direct from the Canary Islands. The Rev. O. P. Cambridge, to whom 

 I sent the specimen, has kindly identified it for me as Zoropsis macn/osus, 

 Camb., which was first found in this country in 1907, and was described 

 by him in the Proceedings of the Zoological Socitty of London, 1907, p. 822. Mr. 

 Cambridge described the species there from two specimens sent him by 

 Mr. H. Speyer — an immature male and a female, probably not quite 

 mature, which were also taken amongst bananas imported direct from 

 the Canary Islands, Other species of this genus inhabit the Mediter- 

 ranean region. This specimen will be lodged in the National Museum 



in Dublin. 



Denis R. Pack-Beresford. 



Fenagh House, Bagenalstown. 



