210 Rev. S. Graham Brade-Birks on Myriapoda. 
Elsewhere in the same district millipedes have also been 
taken at night on roadway and footpath. I have repeatedly 
taken Brachyiulus pusillus (Leach) at night on the sides of 
horticultural frames in the Wye College kitchen-gardens, and 
have concluded that they were feeding either upon crypto- 
eamic material or upon any decaying wood that might be 
found there. 
Although 1921 was abnormally dry, it does not seem likely 
that this is sufficient to explain all the instances observed 
during the year. It seems likely that large numbers of 
millipedes wander by night at certain seasons every year, 
and that at these times our less-frequented country roads, our 
lanes, and field-footpaths provide good observation grounds. 
It is perhaps worth adding that a dead Julid was found on 
Joldharbour Road one day in the middle of May 1920, so 
that, had a night search been made then, wanderers were 
probably to be taken—perhaps the one that was found was 
killed by a passing vehicle. 
Movements of Millipedes by Day. 
Mr. Harriss, fruit-foreman to the Ditton Court Farm, Ltd., 
Larkfield, Kent, and other workers noticed about six specimens 
of a millipede agreeing in Mr. Harriss’s description with 
Cylindroiulus londinensis, var. ceruleocinctus (Wood), which 
occurs locally, or some other animal of similar appearance, 
“crossing” a road between a field on Ditton Court Farm 
and a potato-field in the occupation of the East Malling 
Experimental Station. The animals were observed about 
4.30 p.M., G.M.T., on an afternoon about the middle of 
September 1920. The 1920 crop on the field the millipedes 
appeared to be leaving consisted of cabbages and spring-oats. 
‘he road is not bounded on either side by a fence of any 
kind, and the length on which these animals were observed. 
was some 60 yards. 
On 12th May, 1921, about 9 A.m., G.M.T., the writer took 
ene male of Ophyiulus pilosus (Newport) and one female 
of Vachypedoiulus niger (Leach) alive on the roadway of 
Coldharbour Road, Wye, Kent. It was a thunder-like 
morning, and the sun was struggling through a haze. 
Mr, R. Standen was kind enough to amplify for me tn Mite. 
his account of an incident just mentioned in one of his papers 
(Standen, 1921). ‘ Passing,” he says, “‘ through Dove Dale, 
Derbyshie, one dull, sultry day in June 1919, immediately 
after a heavy rainfall following a dry spell of weather, I was 
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