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Pack-Beresford.— /m/j Spiders. 



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Diplocephalus castaneipes Simon. 

 Ulster. Connaugmt. Leinster. 



The capture of this very rare species in Ireland was recorded, by me 

 in the Clare Island Survey. A female was taken on the island by Mr. 

 H. Wallis Kew in June, 19 lo, and identified by Dr. A. R. Jackson. 



Since then I have found five specimens, all females, preserved in the 

 National Museum from Rathmullen, Co. Donegal, but with no record as to 

 when or by wliom taken. I have also taken a single female, at Kilcarry, 

 Co. Carlo w, in April, 191 4, on the banks of the River Slaney. 



The only locality known for this spider in Great Britain is on Snowdon, 

 where it was discovered by Dr. Jackson ; on the Continent it has 

 occurred only in two mountainous places in Southern France. 



Metopobactrus prominulus Camb. 

 Ulster. Connaught. 



In July, 1909, I took a single female of this species at Malranny, Co. 

 Mayo, which Dr. Jackson was kind enough to identify for me. At that 

 time it was new to the Irish list and was so recorded in the Clare Island 

 Survey {Proc. R. Irish Acad.). Since that date Mr. J. A. Sidney Stendall 

 has recorded the capture of a single male at Carr's Glen, Co. Antrim. 



It is a widely distributed species in England ranging from Dorset to 

 Northumberland, but does not seem to have occurred in Scotland. 



In Europe it is recorded from France, Bavaria, Nassau and Silesia. 



Fenagh House, Bagenalstown. 



NOTES, 



BOTANY. 

 Oenanthe crocata. 



Mr. C. B. Moffat's " Notes on Oenanthe crocata, its character as a 

 poisonous plant " [supra, p. 13), recalls an incident which I found 

 difficult to have explained. One day, when sketching on the banks of 

 a stream near Dripsey, Co. Cork, where a quantity of the Hemlock Water- 

 Dropwort grew, I noticed a milch cow which was feeding in the adjoining 

 field, suddenly stop grazing and run in an excited state to the bank, 

 where it ravenously devoured the tops of the plant ; then quietly walk 

 back and resume feeding on the grass. Some time afterwards, perhaps 

 fifteen minutes, it repeated the same act. The only explanation which 

 occurred to me was, that the animal had eaten some poiisonous substance 

 on the land and its instinct suggested the plant as an antidote. 



8 North Mall, Cork 



M. Holland. 



