1913- Sei^bie:. — New Records of Irish Myiiapods. 131 
NEW RECORDS OF IRISH MYRIAPODS. 
BY C. M. SELBIE, B.SC. 
In a recent paper on the Myriapods of Clare Island ^ 
there was pubUshed, in addition to the list of species found 
on the island, a summary of all the records of Irish species 
contained in earlier papers on this group. 
In the National Museum there is a considerable amount 
of myriapod material from various parts of Ireland, and 
I have examined this, and give here the names of the 
species identified, and the locaHties from which they came. 
The Clare Island paper then, together with this list, 
gives a complete summary of Irish Myriapod records as 
at present known. The Ust contains the names of two 
species new to Ireland, Lithohius crassipes, Koch,^ and 
JPolydcsmus denticulatus , Koch, and additional localities 
for a third, Polydesmus coriaceus, Porat, which has recently 
been recorded from Ireland for the first time — from Co. Car- 
low.^ 
The records are still far too few to allow of any genera- 
lisation as to the distribution of the species. It is especially 
desirable that more specimens should be collected from 
the inland counties. It will be noticed that practically 
all the records pubHshed are from counties on or near 
the coast. Hardly a single specimen has been taken in 
the central plain, and the following counties are unrepre- 
sented by records : — Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, 
Queen's County, Tipperary, Limerick. Several others 
such as Clare, Kilkenny, King's County, Kildare, West- 
meath have only one or two records. 
The counties whose Myriapod fauna is fairly well known 
are the following : — Antrim, Down, Dubhn, Wicklow, 
Cork, Kerry, Galway, Derry, and Armagh, nearly all on 
J- Rev. W. F. Johnson, Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., vol, xxxi., Clare Island 
Survey, part 33- 
2 See, however, Rev. W. F. Johnson's list, p. 129, of this number. 
* A. Randall Jackson, "On some Arthropods observed in 191 1 and 
19 1 2." The Naturalist, March, 191 3. 
