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YII. — Sotes on Collemhola. — Part 2 *. Some Irish Collem- 

 boll and jyofes on the Genus Orcliesella. By JoHN W. 

 SiiOEBOTUAM, N.D.A., BerkhauisteJ. 



.[Plate III.] 



Some Irish Collemhola. 



DuiiING the last two years I have made three visits to 

 Irehind, and on eacli occasion liave collected some springtails, 

 tliougli ill the limited time at my disposal I did not have 

 opportunity to search for them as much as I Avonkl have 

 liked. A few notes, however, may oe useful in giving fresh 

 localities for the known species and to place on record the 

 presence in Ireland of at least four species new to the 

 country, viz. AchoruUs manulriuU^, Tullbergia krausbaiieri, 

 Lepidocyrtus albus, and Megalothorax minimus. The list of 

 Irisli species t;d\.en by me won hi have been larger but for tiie 

 fact that I had tlie misfortune to break a tube in crossing 

 back to England after my first visit, and the contents were 

 lost. The collections have been made at the following 

 ])laces : — Black' ock, Co. Dublin; Dublin; Strabane, Co. 

 Tyrone ; Lifford, Co. Donegal ; Purfadown, Co. Armagh ; 

 Gilford, Co. Down; and Dundonald, Co. Down. All the 

 species have been collected by the author. 



Order COLLEMBOLA, Lbk. 



Suborder A rth ro P LEO x A, C. B. 



Family Achorutidae, C. B.j 



Subfamily Acjiorutin^, C. B. 



Genus AciiORUTES, Tempi., Lbk. 



1, Achoriiles viuticus (Linn.), Ti)g. 

 Loc. Portadown, ii. 1912, near manure iieap ((Jj. 



* The author intend.s publisbinp: a series of parts of '" Notes on Collem* 

 bola" in this Journal. The previuus paper (Ann. it Mag. 2sat. llisti 

 ser. 8, vol. viii. pp. .!i2-39j is to be regarded a.s Part 1. 



t The classification here adopted is one which, in the main, has been 

 accepted by authors this la^st seven years. l)r. Borner has recently 

 proposed a new system, on which I hope to make some notes at an early 

 date. 



