ISOPODS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



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FIG. 687. CUBAKIS MURINA. a, 



FIRST ANTENNA. X 77|. b, SEC- 

 OND ANTENNA. X 23. 



(See Budde-Lund for syn- 



thirds the length of t lie pleotelson; exopodite pnperceivable. Color: 

 light gray, granulations whitish. Dimensions: 44 by H mm."- 

 DOLLFIS." 



CUBARIS MURINA Brandt. 



' 'iilxiri* inurina BRANDT, Bull. Soc. Imp. d. Natural istes de Moscou, VI, 1833, p. 28. 

 Cnharis brunnea BRANDT, Bull. Soc. Imp. d. Naturalistes de Moscou, VI, 1833, p. 28. 

 Armadillo murinus MILNE EDWARDS, Hist. Nat. des Crust., Ill, 1840, p. 179. 

 Armadillo brurmeus MILNE EDWARDS, Hist. Nat. 



des Crust,, III, 1840, p. 179. 

 Armadillo cubemds SArssrRE, Mem. de la Soc. 



de Physique et d'Hist. nat de Geneve, XIV, 



1858, Pt. 2, p. 65. 

 Cubans affinis MIERS, Proc. Zool. Soc., London, 



1877, p. 666, pi. LXVIII, fig. 4. 

 Armadillo conglobator BUDDE-LUND, Prosp. gen- 



erum specierumque Crust. Isop. Terrestrium, 



1879, p. 7. 

 Armadillo murinus BUDDE-LUND, Prosp. generum 



specierumque Crust. Isop. Terrestrium, 1879, 



p. 7; Crust. Isop. Terrestria, 1885, pp. 27, 28. 



onymy. ) 

 Ci i barist murinus RICHARDSON, Proc. U. S. Nat, Mus., XXIII, 1901, p. 571. 



Localities. Pinar del Rio, Cuba; El 

 Guama, Cuba; Guanajay, Cuba; Pueblo 

 Viejo, Porto Rico; St. Thomas; Jamaica; 

 also, Oahu and Honolulu, Hawaiian Is- 

 lands; Brazil; Cayenne; Seychelle Islands; 

 Sumatra. 



Found under stones; in damp caves. 



Body ovate, very convex, and contrac- 

 tile into a ball, a little more than twice 

 as long as wide, 5 mm.: 11 mm. 



Head three times as wide as long, 1 mm. : 

 3 mm., w r ith the anterior margin straight. 

 Eyes small, round, composite, and situ- 

 ated at the sides of the head, halfway be- 

 tween the anterior and the posterior mar- 

 gins. The first pair of antenna? are rudi- 

 mentary and inconspicuous. They are 

 composed of three articles. The second 

 pair of antennae have the first two articles 

 short and subequal; the third article is 

 about three times as long as the second; 

 the fourth and fifth are subequal and each 

 is a little shorter than the third; the sixth article is one and a half times 



Fl(i. <>88. Cl'BARIS MURINA (AFTER 



MIERS"). a, HEAD AND FIRST THO- 

 RACIC SEGMENT. 6, LATEKA I, VIEW OF 

 BODY, r, ABDOMEN AND UROPODA. 



Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1896, pp. 395-396. 



