August, i9»^- 
SEP . ]916 
The Irish Naturalist. 
121 
NOTES ON MYRIAPODA, IIP. 
TWO IRISH CHILOPODS : 
LiTHOBIUS DUBOSCQUI BrOLEMANN AND LlTHOBIUS 
LAPIDICOLA MeINERT. 
BY HILDA K. BRADE, M.SC, AND THE REV. S. GRAHAM 
BIRKS, M.SC. 
We have not hesitated, in the present paper, to use every 
available source of information for the compilation of our 
notes upon the two species with which it deals. The small 
circle of workers in the British Isles especially interested 
in the Chilopoda will understand readily that in our aim 
to present a clear account of these two animals it has been 
necessary to draw upon the results of the labours of eminent 
zoologists whose work has already been published else- 
where, principally in other languages, but even, in some 
instances, in EngHsh too. 
Where we are indebted in these notes to other 
workers for literal quotations our translations and 
extracts are printed in small type. 
Among the material left in our hands by Dr. A. Randell 
Jackson when he took up military service were several 
tubes containing Lithobiids from Ireland, collected by the 
Misses Foster and Mr. Nevin H. Foster of Hillsborough, 
Co. Down. This material, together with two other tubes 
containing specimens of Lithobius belonging to the National 
Museum of Ireland, was sent to Dr. Henry W. Brolemann 
of Pau, who examined and identified it with his customary 
kindness. 
The i ubes examined were as fallows : — 
155 (I'^i National Museum), Glengarift. Probably collected by Dr. 
Scharff in May, 189 1. This is presumably the specimen examined by 
Mr. R. I. Pocock,2 although there was nothing on the label to indicate 
that it was he who named the specimen as Lithobius microps Meinert. 
(^) The authors' former Notes of this series appeared in the Lancashire 
and Cheshire Naturalist, 19 16. 
(*) Vide /mA Naturalist, vol. ii., pp. 309-312. 
