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it has never yet shown signs (in Great Britain at least) of a girdle. The 

 shape of the head differs from that of the other Lumbricidi, and the 

 body has a tendency to break up at the septa. There is every reason to 

 expect Helodrilus in Ireland, and as I have recently recorded a new 

 species {H. elongatus. Friend) for Cornwall, it would not be surprising 

 if more than one species was eventually found to occur in this island. 

 I should be glad if collectors would search the beds of rivers and streams 

 down to the depth of ten inches or a foot, and also carefully delve among 

 the roots of grass and water weeds in streams and along their banks 

 with a view to finding species of Helodrilus and other worms. It may 

 be remembered that H. oculatus varies from one to three inches in length, 

 is pink in colour, has a number of " hearts" in the anterior segments, 

 and does not possess a girdle. It is one to two mm. in diameter. 



HiLDERic Friend. 

 Swadlincote. 



Helix cantiana introduced in Cork. 



In September, 1901, nineteen full-grown living specimens of Helix 

 cantiana brought from Knowle, near Bristol, were placed on a grassy 

 bank at Tivoli railway station, near Cork. The species now seems 

 likely to become naturalized in the locality, as I have visited it several 

 times in recent years and on each occasion found the colony in a 

 flourishing condition, both adults and juveniles being quite numerous. 

 Owing to the proximity of the railway it is possible that the animal 

 may eventually be carried, accidentally or otherwise, to other parts of 

 Ireland. 



R. A. Phillips. 



Cork. 



[For reasons often stated previously, we greatl}' regret such 

 introductions as this. — Eds.] 



Irish Amphipoda. 



In a paper entitled Notes on some Amphipoda from the north side of 

 the Bay of Biscay (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1909, pp. 848-879), Mr. E. W. 

 Sexton alludes to one or two points of interest to Irish zoologists. In 

 1897 Mr. Walker described some amphipods in the Journal of the 

 Linnean Society, which had been collected off the south-west of Ireland. 

 One of these he considered as a new species and he described it under 

 the name of Parapleustes megacheir. Mr. Sexton, after a careful re- 

 examination of the type specimen of this species contained in the National 

 Museum of Ireland, comes to the conclusion that it is identical with 

 another amphipod described by Chevreux under the name of Symplenstes 

 grandimanus. 



