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wholly inert, and are now wisely discarded from the phar- 

 macopoeias." 



The species of this country have not been much investi- 

 gated, and there is little doubt that some of the many species 

 recorded in Brandt's ' Conspectus of the Oniscida,' will be 

 found to be indigenous. Among those recorded may be 

 specified — 



Porcellio scaber, Latr. (Plate XIII. fig. 2.) — Body 

 oval, wide, and covered with roughnesses, largest on the 

 head and thorax, and very small on the abdomen. The 

 frontal median lobe of the head is entire and triangular. 

 It is of a darkish lead-colour, often varied with whitish 

 blotches. 



Common under stones and among rotten wood. 



Porcellio l^vis, Latr. — Body smooth ; head with the 

 front arcuated, the middle lobe very little developed ; of a 

 uniform greyish-brown ; below the knees of each leg there 

 is a dusky spot. 



In similar localities as the former, but not so common. 



Pam. ARMADILLIBjE. 

 Of an oval form; the posterior appendages of the ab- 



