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14. Templeton, R. — Catalogue of Irish Crustacea, Myriapoda, 

 and Arachnoida, selected from the Papers of the late John 

 Templeton. Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, ix. pp. 

 9-14. London, 1836. 



Contains the first records of false-scorpions in Ireland. Two 

 species are given in the additions to the Catalogue which bear 

 the initials R. T. The first, without locality, is " Chelifer 

 muscBorum Leach " = Cheiridium museorum (Leach) ; and the 

 second, from Island Magee, Co. Antrim, is " Chelifer parasitica 

 Herm.," and is described as having " spatulate bristles" ; cf. 

 Kew (40) = Chelifer (Chernes) duhius (Camb., 1892) ? 



15. Westwood, J. 0. — (1) Cheliferidse. In British Cyclo- 

 paedia of Natural History, ii. p. 10. (2) Entomologist's Text 

 Book, pp. 145-6. London, 1836-8. 



" Highly interesting . . I have captured the largest species 



which I have hitherto seen of the group, under the bark of trees 



in Windsor forest, in the act of devouring the hard-cased beetle 



{Bitoma crenata).^^ = Chelifer (Chernes) cyrneus (L. Koch, 1873) ? 



C. L. Koch's " Die Arachniden," x., published at Niirnberg in 

 1843, is the first big work on these animals. It contains descrip- 

 tions of 26 species, mostly German, and there are eleven plates 

 of them, engraved on copper and coloured, and comprising alto- 

 gether 32 figures. The work is in many respects well done, both 

 descriptions and figures affording evidence of close study ; and the 

 author gave attention to certain details which subsequent writers 

 would have done well to notice. Chthonius is estabhshed here. 



16. Curtis, J. — Observations on the Natural History and 

 Economy of various Insects affecting the Potato-crops. Journ. 

 Royal Agricultural Society, x. pp. 70-118. London, 1849. 



In this paper, written from Hayes near Uxbridge, Curtis 

 describes and beautifully illustrates, without mention of locality, 

 a false-scorpion which had occurred in numbers among decaying 

 potatoes : Chelifer incequalis sp. no v. = Chelifer (Chemes) 

 nodosus Schr. 



The often-quoted memoir of A. Menge " Ueber die Scheeren- 

 spinnen, Chernetidae," appeared at Danzig (N. Schr. Natf. Ges., 

 v.) in 1855. The text leaves something to be desired in certain 

 respects, and the figures are crude, but the work is noteworthy 

 from the fact that it deals with species fossil in amber as well 

 as with recent species and with internal as well as external struc- 

 ture. Cheiridium is established here. 



