igiS. Brade-Birks. —.Vo/fs on Irish Myriapoda. 29 



721. L. lapidicola, six males, Gleniff, Co. Sligo, 17. iv. 191 4. Mr. N. 



H. Foster. [Nat. Mus., Ireland, material : 373 — 1914]- 

 919. L. lapidicola, one example, Ballymagee, Co. Down, 28. v. 191 7, 



Messrs. A. W. Stelfox and N. H. Foster. 

 945. L. Duboscqui, one male, Hillsborough Park, Co. Down, July, 1917, 



Mr. N. H. Foster. 



References. 



1. Attems, C. G. — " Die Myriopoden Steiermarks " ; Sitz. der Math.- 



Nat. Classe K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, civ., i. {1895), pp. 117 et seq. 

 Figs. 



2. Br.^de, Hilda K., and Birks, S. Graham. — " Notes on Myriapoda, 



n. — Some Brief Records " ; Latics. and Chesh. Nal. (July, 1916), 

 p. 82. 



3. Brade, Hilda K, and Birks, S. Graham. — " Notes on Myriapoda, 



in. — Two Irish Chilopods " ; Irish Nat., vol. xxv. (1916), pp. 121 

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4. Brolemann, Henry W. — " Lithobiits variegatus Leach " ; Irish Nal., 



vol. V. (1896), pp. \2 et seq. 



5. Evans, William. — " The Myriapods of the Forth Area " ; Proc. Roy. 



Phys. Soc. Edinh., vol. xvi. (1906), pp. 405 et seq. 



6. Verhoeff, C. W. — Fin Beitrag zur mitteleuropaischen Diplopoden- 



Fauna, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., Bd. xxxvi., i. (1891), pp. 115 et seq.. 

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7. Verhoeff, C. W.— Ueber Diplopoden. Furopiiische Polydesmiden. 



Zool. Anz., Band xxxii. (1908), pp. 337 et seq., Figs. 



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ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



December 5. — Public Lecture in the Royal Dublin Society's 

 Theatre, Sir F. Moore (President) in the chair. Prof. A. Francis 

 Dixon, Sc.D., lectured on " The Gorilla and its Place in the Animal 

 Kingdom," indicating clearly the probable relationships between the 

 genera of the large Apes. The audience was numerous and appreciative. 



Recent gifts include a pair of Ring Doves from Mr. R. Cunningham. 

 Two Lion cubs have been born in the Gardens, " Red Hugh " and 

 " Maive " being the parents. 



DUBLIN MICROSCOPICAL CLUB. 



December 12. — N. Colgan (President) in the chair. 



R. C. Taylor showed sections of lignite from Carrig-a-pulliar, 

 Portrush. It occurs in a layer 10-12 feet thick interbedded between the 

 two great basaltic masses of Co. Antrim, provisionally termed the " upper 

 and lower basalts of our geological maps," 



