102 TEE ZOOLOGIST. 



LITHOBIUS LAPIDICOLA, Meinert, A CENTIPEDE 

 NEW TO THE BRITISH FAUNA. 



By Bichaed S. Bagnall, F.L.S., F.E.S. 



Whilst spending a short holiday in North Devon in August 

 of last year (1913), I observed a smallish Lithobiid which 

 occurred in the Ilfracombe district, amongst the larger pebbles 

 and under stones at the foot of the cliffs at Hele Bay, the 

 bathing cove, Ilfracombe, and at Lee Bay, where it was not only 

 found on the shore but on the cliffs also. I could not identify 

 it with any of our known British species and accordingly sent 

 specimens to Dr. Brolemann, who with his customary kindness 

 readily identified them as Lithobius lapidicola, Meinert, a South 

 European species. 



It comes in the group Archilithobius, and according to Latzel 

 near to our species calcaratus, though Von Attems* places it in 

 another subdivision, with pelidnus, mutabilis, &c. 



L. lapidicola was described by Meinert in his ' Myriapoda 

 Musaei Hauniensis,' ii., Lithobiinit in 1872, and a description 

 will also be found in Latzel's ' Die Myriopoden der Oster.-Ungar. 

 Monarchic' t 



I regret that I have not yet found the opportunity of making 

 a study of the species and therefore cannot, at present, offer any 

 further remarks. 



:;: "Die Myriopoden Steiermarks," Sitz. k. Akad. Wiss. Wien Math.- 

 Naturw. Classe, civ. 1895, pp. 117-238. 

 f Naturh. Tidskr., viii. 1872, p. 228. 

 J I. Die Chilopoden, 1880, p. 106. 



