The British Woodlice / Being a Monograph of the Terrestrial Isopod Crustacea Occurring in the British Islands

by Wilfred Mark Webb; Charles Sillem

Atlantic Isles; (23).

America: North and South, almost everywhere, to judge from M. Dollfus' list; (23).

Australia: New Caledonia; (23).

Metoponorthus cingendus Kinahan. [Plate XX.]

1857 Porcellio cingendus Kinahan (32), p. 279, pl. XIX., figs. 1468-9.
1868 Porcellio cingendus Bate and Westwood (1), p. 489.
1885 Metoponorthus simplex Budde-Lund (8), p. 188.

The colour of Metoponorthus cingendus is steel blue with red or yellowish spots. It has a raised line across each thoracic segment and its abdomen is narrower than in Metoponorthus pruinosus.

BRITISH LOCALITIES:—

England: Salcombe, Devon; (Norman, 49): South Devon; (Stebbing in 49).

Ireland: Dublin; (B.M. from Kinahan); Mountain Districts of Dublin, Wicklow, and Cork; Coast of Kerry; Arran Islands; Achill, Co. Mayo; Roundstone, Co. Galway; Mallow, Caef Island; Glandore; Brock Haven, Co. Cork; Killoughrim Forest, Co. Wexford; Kenmare, Co. Kerry; (R.F.S.).