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The Irish Naturalist. 



[Jan. 



I.ITHOBIUS VARIEGATUS, LEACH. 



BY HENRY W. BROLEMANN. 



Since Mr. R. I. Pocock's " Notes on some Irish Myriapoda" 

 appeared in the Irish Naturalist (vol. ii., December, 1893) I 

 do not know that any paper has been published on the matter, 

 and the list, amounting to twenty-two species, given by him 

 has not since been increased.^ 



Thanks to the extreme kindness of Prof. D'Arcy W. 

 Thompson, of University College, Dundee, I have been 

 enabled to examine the material collected by him in the 

 County of Galway and was fortunate enough to find, amongst 

 other species, four Myriapods, the presence of which in Ireland 

 has not been mentioned, which brings the number of known 

 Irish forms up to twenty-six. 



Recapitulating briefly the species alluded to in Mr. Pocock's 

 paper, I mark with a * the species which were not represented 

 in Prof. Thompson's collection, and which I have not been 

 able to examine, thus : — 



Lithohius forjicatus, L- 

 L. vanegatus, lycach. 

 L. melanops, Newport. 

 *L. microps, Meinert. 

 Cryptops hortensis, 



Leach. 

 Geopkilus longicornis, 



I^each. 

 G. carpophagus, lycach. 

 Scolioplanes crassipes, C. 



Koch. 



S. mariiimus, lyCach. 

 Stigmatog aster suhtei'- 



ramus, Leach. 

 ^PoJyxenus lagiirus, L- 

 Glomeris marginata, 



Villi ers. 

 Polydeamus complanatus, 



L. 

 P. gaUicus, Latzel. 

 Brachydesmus superus, 



Latzel. 



*A tractosoma polydes- 



vioides, Leach. 

 *Blaniulus fuscus, Am- 

 Stein. 

 lulus britannicus, Ver- 



hoeff. 

 */. pilosus, Newport. 

 */. alhipes, C. Koch. 

 /. sabulosus. L- 



To these I add : — 



Geophilus gracilis, Meinert, Blaniulus guttulatus, Bosc, 

 G. proxi?mis, C Koch, luhis {Leptoiuhis), sp. incerta. 



^ Since the present paper was written, there appeared in the special 

 number of the "Irish Naturalist," vol. iv., No. 9, September, 1895, Mr. 

 George H. Carpenter's list of the Myriapoda collected in Galway during 

 the excursion of the Irish Field Club Union, where Scolopendrella inwiacu- 

 lata, Newport, was recorded. 



