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as belonging more particularly to the central states of 

 Europe, though Dr. Brolemann says, inliti. " Maybe, after 

 all, pyoxiniHS occurs in your country." 



Attems gives excellent figures of his species (i). 



UracJiyiHliis {MicrohracJiyiitlus) littoralis Verhoeff. 



This species is probably not uncommon in the British 

 Isles, where it appears to have been much confused with 

 Julus pusillus Leach. 



A male was collected at Gawley's Gate, Co. Antrim, by 

 Mr. Foster, on May 30th, 1917. Three females, probably 

 referable to the same species, had been taken by Mr. A. W. 

 Stelfox and ^Ir. Foster two days earlier, at Baltymagee, 

 Co. Down. 



Brachydesmus siipcrus mosellaniis Verhoeff. 



We have received specimens of this variety, which \\'\\\ 

 probably prove to be common in these islands, collected 

 in considerable numbers by Mr. Foster in May, 1917, and 

 by Mr. Stelfox in November, 1917, at Baltymagee, Co. Down, 

 where it constitutes a pest in the latter's garden. Mr. 

 Foster also took it at Gawley's Gate, Co. Antrim, on 

 May 30th, 1917. 



This variety occurs in England (2), and is figured by 

 Dr. Verhoeff (6 and 7). . 



We have also received several interesting specimens of 

 Diplopoda from Ireland, which we have been unable to 

 identify in the absence of adult males. 



Since our former note in this Journal (3) we have 

 examined the following tubes of material bearing on the 

 subject of that paper : — 



65O. Lithobius lapidicola^ one female, Murray's Wood, Coalisland, Co. 



Tyrone, 3. vi. iyi6, INIr. N. H. Foster. 

 704 L. lapidicola, two females, one male, near Lough Dan, Co. Wicklow, 



6. X. 1913, Miss J. Stephens. [Nat. Mus., Ireland, material]. 

 712. L. Duboscqui, one female, Antrim Churchyard, Co. Antrim, 2. ix. 



1916, Mr. N. H. Foster. 

 720. L. lapidicola, one female, two males. The Spa, Bally nahinch, Co. 



Down, 8. V. 1915, Mr. N. H. Foster. [Nat. Mus., Ireland, material : 



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