THE BRITISH WOODLICE. 87
Scotland : Tarbert; (Scott, 68).
Ireland: Dublin; Ballyfinder, Co. Down; (Scharff, 63):
Templeogue; Dundrum; Blackrock; Rathgar, Co. Dublin;
Bray, Co. Wicklow ; (R.F.S.) : Oakleigh ; Kerry ; (R.W.) :
Belfast; (Welch, Irish Nat., 1896, p. 213.): At the grave of Josiah
Welch (grandson of John Knox), Castle Upton; Richhill, Co.
Armagh ; Castleconnell Ferry ; (R.W.) : Glenade House, Co.
Antrim ; (R.W. from R. Ll.; Praeger).
FOREIGN DISTRIBUTION :—
Europe: France; (25): Spain; (12) : Ilaly; (59): Denmark; Germany;
Holland; (39) ; Dalmatia ; (18).
Africa: Algeria; Tunis; (24).
Genus—TRICHONISCOIDES, Sars, 1898
(59). p. 164.
Abdomen narrow; eyes simple; (or wanting);
flagellum, with four joints.
The members of this genus are very much
like those of Trichoniscus. In the latter, how-
ever, the hinder legs are longer in proportion
and the eyes are compound.
Trichoniscoides albidus Budde-Lund.
Plate VI.
1879 Trichoniscus albidus Budde-Lund (7) p. 9.
1898 Trichoniscoides albidus Sars (59), p. 165," pl. LXXIII., fig. 2.
We are able to include this species, as a
specimen was found by Mr. Webb at Eton
Wick in the summer of 1898. It is one of
a number of species which the Rev. Canon
Norman (49, p. 18) suggested as likely to be
British. It is the only representative of its
genus, which does not differ in any very important characters
from the others in the family. The narrow elongated body will
serve to separate it from Trichoniscus vividus and Trichoniscus
roseus, but on account of its size, which is much the same as that
of Trichoniscus pusillus and the two British species of
Haplophthalmus, it will be advisable to give some further points
of distinction. From the first its white colour will serve to
differentiate it ; the other two lack the narrow abdomen seen in
Trichoniscoides albidus. Moreover, not one of the three shows the
serrations on the side plates which characterise the species under