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NOTES ON MYRIAPODA. Vlll.i 

 RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE IRISH FAUNA. 



BY HILDA K. BRADE-BIRKS, M.SC, M.B., CH.B., L.R.C.P., 

 M.R.C.S., AND THE REV. S. GRAHAM BRADE-BIRKS, M.SC. 



Irish naturalists very kindly continue to place material 

 at our disposal from time to time, and in the course of 

 diagnosis we have recently met with one centipede and two 

 millipedes previously unrecorded for Ireland, namely : — 



Chilopoda : 



Geophilus insculpius Attems. 



DiPLOPODA : 



Brachyiiilus {Microbrachyiiilus) littoralis Verhoeff. 

 Brachydesmus super us mosellanus Verhoeff. 



Geophilus insciilptus Attems. 



We recently recorded this species as new to Britain (2), 

 and it has been sent to us from Ireland by Mr. Nevin H. 

 Foster, who took a female in Hillsborough Park, Co. Down, 

 4 iii. 1916. The same collector has also sent an example 

 from Hillsborough, collected in July, 1917. We must with- 

 draw our own Irish record of G, proximus from Sugarloaf, 

 Bray, Co. Wicklow (3), as this animal afterwards turned out 

 to be G. insculptus. 



We think it probable that most Irish records of G. 

 proximus will need the same correction. Dr. Henry W. 

 Brolemann, the eminent French zoologist, f;j litt. referring to 

 Mr. Evans's reference (5) to his note in the Irish Naturalist 

 (4) seems to doubt the validity of his own diagnosis of G. 

 proximus, as it was evidently made at a time when he was 

 not familiar with G. insculptus ; so, until authenticated 

 examples of G. proximus are definitely recorded for the 

 British Isles, we are afraid that this species must be regarded 



*An earlier paper in this series, the third, also appeared in this 

 journal in August, 1916, the other papers have appeared in various 

 other scientific periodicals. 



