74 Canon A. M. Norman on 



Philoscia Couchii, Kinahan. 



1885. Ligidium Couchii, Budde-Lund, (8) p. 257. 

 1885. Philoscia lonc/icomis, Budde-Lunde, (8) p. 221. 

 1897. Philoscia Couchii, Dollfus, (10) p. 5 (separate copy), pi. i. 

 fig. 1 a-c. 



This species would seem to be entirely confined to the 

 immediate neighbourhood of the sea. Salcombe, Devon 

 (A. M. N.) ; Meadfoot, Torquay (Stebbing). 



Its distribution has been found to be very extensive, 

 ranging southwards along the continent of Europe, in the 

 Mediterranean both on northern and southern coasts, in the 

 Black Sea at Sebastopol, in the Azores and Canaries. 



Platyarthrus Hoffmannseggii, Brandt. 



Salcombe, Devon ; Cheddar Cliffs, Somerset ; garden, Red 

 House, Berkhamsted, Herts (A. M. N.) ; Ide, near Exeter 

 {Parjitt) ; Torquay {Stebbing). Leixlip, co. Dublin, Lismore, 

 co. Waterford, and Glengarriff, co. Cork (Scharf). Banff, 

 Scotland (Thomas Edward, see 5). 



Metoponortkus pruinosus, Brandt. 



Burnmoor, co. Durham ; Berkhamsted, Herts (A. M. N.) ; 

 Exeter {Parjitt); Banff, Scotland (Thos. Edward). 



Budde-Lund unites with it Porcellio maculicornis } Koch, 

 P. frontalis, Lereb., Porcellionides flavo-vittatus, Miers, and 

 with ? before them Porcellio truncatus, M.-Edvv., P, zealand- 

 icus, "White, P. immaculatns, Fitch, and Porcellionides Je/skii, 

 Miers; and to this long list of synonyms is added P. Swam- 

 merdamii, Aud. & Saw It is very widely distributed, ex- 

 tending to Palestine, Madagascar, Sicily, North Africa, and 

 the Canary Islands. 



Metoponortkus cingendus, Kinahan. 



This is Porcellio cingendus, Kinahan. Salcombe, Devon 

 (A. M. N.). Mr. Stebbing has also found it in South 

 Devon. Dr. Scharff says : — ei In the mountainous districts 

 of Dublin, Wicklow, and Cork, and also on the coast of 

 Kerry, and on the Arran Islands it is common." Dollfus 

 records it from France and Spain. 



Porcellio scaber } Latreille. 

 Abundant everywhere. 



