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RECORDS OF SOME IRISH WOODEICE 



With Note ox Eluma purpui?ascens. 



by richard s. bagnall, f.e-s. 



During a few days spent in Ireland at the beginning of Sep- 

 tember, 190S, I collected several woodlice, and purpose shortly 

 to record those species which occurred in the Glasnevin 

 gardens and hot-houses. In the following short list of truly 

 indigenous forms Ehtina purpurasce^is is of exceptional in- 

 terest, the genus being previously unknown from the British 

 Isles or Central Europe. Eluma is, in fact, another link in 

 that interesting chain of South European species which in 

 these islands are so strongly represented in Ireland as lo 

 make the stud}^ of Irish natural histor}^ highly important. 



Armadillidiuvi album, DoUfus,^ a rare species allied to 

 Eluma, which was discovered on the Devonshire coast this 

 year, is another relic of the Eusitanian group, described in 

 Dr. Scharff's very interesting works on the European fauna-. 

 Mr. Denis R. Pack-Beresford was fortunate enough to discover 

 E. purpurascens at Howth, near Dublin, in August of this year, 

 and is giving a full account of it. >.Iy specimens were mostly 

 found at the foot of a hedge-row, from which we beat out the 

 P3'renean Weevil ( OHorrhyncJnis anropiinctatusj another 

 representative of the same faunistic group. 



TRICHONISCID^. 



Trichoniscus pusillus, Brandt.— No doubt connnon and widely 

 distributed. Near Lurgan. on the shore of Lough Neagh ; Howth, 

 Portniarnock, and Dubhu, September, 1908. 



ONISCID^E. 



Porcellio scaber, Latr ) From the same locaUties as 7\ pusillus ; 



Oniscus asellus, L. > common. 



Phiioscia muscorum, vScop. — Portniarnock, Lurgan, common. 



P. Couchii, Kin. — On vSeptember 5th I saw a single specimen of 

 what was undoubtedly this interesting species, on the shore near 

 Howth, but the too close attention of two wasps, prevented me from 



' BaGNALI., R. S. — " On Annadillidium album, Dollfus, a rare woodlouse 

 new to the fauna of Great Britain." Zoologist^ pp. 152-4, 190S. 



* SCHARKF, R. F.— " The History of the European Fauna," 1899. 

 " European xAnimals,'" 1907. 



