ISOPODS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



607 



dark violet, covered with white spots, with the margins white. Legs 

 all yellow, or covered with black dots. 



Length 11 mm.; width 5 mm.; height 2.5 mm. a 



PHILOSCIA BERMUDENSIS Dahl. 



Philoscia bermudensis DAHL, Plankton Expedition, I, 1892, Pt. 1, p. Ill, pi. in, 

 figs. 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 13. 



Locality. Bermudas. 



This species is not described, but well figured and compared with 



a 



FIG. 664. PHILOSCIA BERMUDENSIS (AFTEK DAHL). a, GENERAL FIGURE, x 5. b, SECOND AN- 

 TENNA, x 16. c, MAXILLIPED. x 40. d, MANDIBLE, x 40. e, FIRST MAXILLA, x 40. /, FIRST 

 LEG. x 16. <;, UROPOD. x 16. 



The above description is adapted from the following one of Budde-Lund's: 



Oblonge ovalis, subconvexa, nitida, tenuiter et sparse punctata. 



Antennae exteriores corporis dimidio breviores; flagelli articuli breves, subsequales. 



Linea marginalia frontalis medio paulum arcuate producta, fere onmino obliter- 

 ata; epistoma medio subconvexum. 



Cauda trunco vix abrupte angustior. Annulus analis brevis, fere triangulus, 

 lateribus leviter incurvis, apice rotundato obtuso, supra sulcatus. 



Color variat in duobus speciminibus dilutior vel obscurior violaceus, maculis 

 albidis conspersis, in marginibus late albidus. Pedes toti flavi, vel punctis nigres- 

 centibus conspersis. 



Longitudo, 11 mm.; latitude, 5 mm.; altitude, 2.5 mm. BUDDE-LUND, Crust. 

 Isop. Terrestria, 1885, pp. 218-219. 



