210 Eov. S. Graham Bratle-Biiks on Mi/n'apoda» 



Elsewhere in tlie same district millipedes have also been 

 taken at night on roadway and footpath. 1 have repeatedly 

 t:\]iQn JJrac/n/uih(s 2>usilliis (Leach) at night on the sides of 

 liorticnltural frames in the Wye College kilchen-gardens, and 

 have concluded that they were feeding either upon crypto- 

 gamic 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 nun)bers 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 

 Coldharbour Road one day in the middle of May 1920, so 

 that, had a night search been made then, wanderers were 

 jirobably to be taken — perhaps the one that was found was 

 killed by a passing vehicle. 



Movements of Millipedes hy Day. 



Mr. Harriss, fruit-foreman to the Ditton Court Farm, Ltd., 

 Larkficld, Kent, and other workers noticed about six specimens 

 of a millipede agreeing in Mr. Harriss's description with 

 Cylindroixdus londinensis, var. ccvrideocinctus (Wood), which 

 occurs locally, or some other animal of similar appearance, 

 " crossing " a road between a field on Ditton Court Farm 

 and a ])otato-field in the occupation of the East Mailing 

 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 

 a])peared to be leaving consisted of cabbages and spring-oats. 

 The 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 12ih May, 1921, about 9 A.M., G.M.T., the writer took 

 one nale of Ojdiyiulus pilos'iis (Newport) and one female 

 of \/ achijpcdoiiihis nif/er (Leach) alive on the roadway of 

 Coldharbour Hoad, Wye, Kent. It was a thunder-like 

 morning, and the sun was struggling through a haze. 



Mr. K. Standen was kind enough to amplify for me in li'it. 

 his account of an incident just mentioned in one of his papers 

 (Standen, 1921). '' Passing," he says, " through Dove Dale, 

 Derbyshiie, one dull, sultry day in June 1919, immediately 

 after p b'-'w rainfall followintr -» fb\' >ii.11 (,(" weather, 1 was 



