ISOPODS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



605 



"The legs increase slightly in length from before backward and are 

 furnished with long acute spines. The uropods are broken off. 



"From Culebra. Two specimens, under drift on shore, 4.2 by 1.6 

 mm." MOORE. a 



PHILOSCIA VITTATA Say. 



Philoscia vittata SAY, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I, 1818, p. 429. DE KAY, 

 Zool. New York, Crust., 1844, p. 50. WHITE, List Crust. Brit. Museum, 

 1847, p. 99. HARGER with VERRILL, Eeport U. S. Commissioner of Fish and 

 Fisheries, 1873, Pt. 1, p. 569 (275)fProc. U. S. Nat. Mus., II, 1879, p. 157; 

 Report U. S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, 1880, Pt. 6, pp. 306-307, 

 pi. i, fig. 1. UNDERWOOD, Bull. 111. 

 State Lab. Nat, Hist., II, 1886, p. 

 361. RICHARDSON, American Natu- 

 ralist, XXXIV, 1900, p. 305; Proc. 

 TJ. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1901, p. 

 565. PAULMIER, Bull. New York 

 State Museum, 1905, p. 181. 



Localities. Great Egg Harbor, 

 New Jersey, to Barnstable, Massa- 

 chusetts; Salem, Massachusetts; Free- 

 port, Long Island. Found under 

 stones, wood, etc., in moist places; 

 under rubbish along the shore; under- 

 side of boards above high water. 



Body oblong-ovate, a little more 

 than twice as long as wide, 3 mm.: 

 6i mm. 



Head wider than long, 1 mm. : 1 

 mm., with the anterior margin 

 rounded and not produced into a lobe. The antero-lateral angles of 

 the head are rounded and not produced into lobes. The eyes are small, 



FIG. 661. PHILOSCIA VITTATA (AFTER 

 HAEGEK). x 6. 



FIG. 662. PHILOSCIA VITTATA. a, MAXILLIPED. b, SECOND MAXILLA, c, FIRST MAXILLA (OUTER 

 LOBE), d, FIRST MAXILLA (INNER LOBE), e, MANDIBLE. /, TERMINAL SEGMENT OF ABDOMEN, 



WITH UROPODA. 



round, and composite, and situated in the antero-lateral angles of the 

 head. The first pair of antennae are small, rudimentary, and incon- 



Bull. U. S. Fish Comrn., XX, Pt. 2, 1902, p. 176. 



