I9I0. Kew. — Irish Species of Obishwi. m 



hand rather long aud relatively narrow, fingers scarcely as long as hand, 

 teeth of fixed finger like those of last species but smaller, teeth of mov- 

 able finger distinct ; legs iv. with tarsus^ and tarsus^ about equal, 

 Iv. 3'2 mm. 



On the sea-shore between tide-marks ; plentiful where it occurs . 

 MUNSTER. — Keumare Bay, Co. Kerry ; Bantry Bay, Co. Cork (H.W.K.). 



With regard to extra-Irish distribution, our knowledge is 

 too fragmentary for definite pronouncements ; but it may be 

 useful to give the facts as far as they go. O. 7miscoru7n 

 (generally distributed in Britain) is evidently a species of wide 

 range ; according to Ellingsen (lo) it has been found from 

 north of the Polar Circle in Norway to the Mediterranean. 

 O. 7nariihnum occurs in the Isle of Man at Port Erin ; in 

 Britain on the western and south-western shores, i.e. in Ross, 

 Argjdl, Cornwall, and Devon ; beyond, it has been found in 

 Jersey, and in France near Boulogne (9) and near St. Malo 

 (11) ; but whether it goes round the west of Europe to the 

 Mediterranean is not certainly known, an old record by 

 Risso (12) being, I suppose, doubtful. Of O. Carpenteri, finally, 

 confusions of nomenclature leave us little that is certain ; in 

 Ireland it may be restricted to the south-west; and in this 

 connection — in view of facts known to everyone — it is sig- 

 nificant to find that the animal is in France, according to 

 Simon, a southern species ; it is rare, he says, in the environs 

 of Paris, and on the contrary commonest of all in Corsica and 

 in Algeria. 



References. 



1. Carpenter, G. H., and Kvans, W. — A Ijst of Phalangidea 

 (Harvest-men) and Chernetidea (False-Scorpions) collected in the 

 neighbourhood of Edinburgh. Proceedmgs of the Royal Physical Society, 

 Edinburgh, xiii. (1895), p. 123. 



2, Carpenter, G. H. — In British Association Guide to Belfast and 

 Counties of Down and Antrim, 1902, p. 220. 



■I. Carpenter, G. H. — In British Association Handbook to the City of 

 Dublin and the surrounding District, 1908, p. 190. 



4. Cambridge, O. P. — On the British Species of False Scorpions. 

 Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, xiii. 

 (1892), pp. 212-216, pi. B, 



5. Kew, H. W.— Notes on the Irish False-Scorpions in the National 

 Museum of Ireland. Irish Naturalist, xviii. (1909), pp. 249-250. 



6. KoCH, L.— Uebersichtliche Darstellung der europaischen Cherneti- 

 den (Pseudosccrpione), 1873, pp. 4i-47i 52-68. 



