A history of the British sessile-eyed Crustacea . sting of only the four terminal articula-tions. This species appears to be widely dispersed throughoutEngland and Ireland, although rare in the southerncounties of the former. It has been taken near Dublin,Wexford, Cork, and Kerry by Dr. Percival Wright,and at Tyrone, Waterford, Portlaw, Kilkenny, andWicklow (Prof. Kinahan). In Epping Forest andChiselhurst, Kent; also at Plymouth ; Polperro (in thegardens of the inn, not uncommon); Looe abundantly,among sticks by the river side. It is found in verymoist places amongst all kinds of decaying matt
A history of the British sessile-eyed Crustacea . sting of only the four terminal articula-tions. This species appears to be widely dispersed throughoutEngland and Ireland, although rare in the southerncounties of the former. It has been taken near Dublin,Wexford, Cork, and Kerry by Dr. Percival Wright,and at Tyrone, Waterford, Portlaw, Kilkenny, andWicklow (Prof. Kinahan). In Epping Forest andChiselhurst, Kent; also at Plymouth ; Polperro (in thegardens of the inn, not uncommon); Looe abundantly,among sticks by the river side. It is found in verymoist places amongst all kinds of decaying matter, alsoamongst moist dead leaves, amongst wet ashes, and inmoss, at the roots of trees. It runs with agility, buriesitself deep in the ground, and generally congregates innumbers. It is very impatient of dryness, soon dyingon exposure to air (Kinahan). It feigns death whendisturbed, but does not attempt to roll itself in the Kinahan found it with ova and young fromFebruary to November. 458 ISOPODA. NORMALIA. ONISCID^. PHILOUGRIA VIVIUA. Specific character. Oval, smooth, glossy. Terminal segment of the pleontriangular, truncate, the extremity nearly straight, without any emargination ;above, deeply sulcated. Outer antennae ten-jointed. Colour brown, markedwith small buff-white dots. Length, five-twentieths of an inch. Itea vivida. Koch, in Cont. Panzer Deutschl. Ins. 180, 4 ; and Deutschl. Crust. 40, vivida. Kinahan, Nat. Hist. Rev. vol. v. 1858, pp. 197, 198, pi. 23, fig. (?) Itea nana (?). Kocii, 0pp. cit. 180, 5, and 40, 5. The general colour of this species is claret-brown,marbled with white when seen under a lens. It is of anoval form, smooth and shining, with the surface of theskin marked, in addition to the small fine curved scale-like appearance of the preceding species, with small scat-tered impressed dots or pits, as shown in Fig. h. The r» ^^-UAJ-CJLok- r> I -^JotJLt ,6^;*/ay \ PHILOUGRIA VI
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