ISOPODS OF NORTH AMERICA. 653 



CUBARIS PISUM (Budde-Lund). 



Armadillo pisum BUDDE-LUND, Crust. Isop. Terrestria, 1885, p. 32. 

 Cubaris pisum RICHARDSON, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1901, p. 572. 



Locality. Florida. 



Body oval, very convex, smooth, shining. 



Second pair of antenna a little shorter than half the length of the 

 bod}', slender; h'rst article of the flagellum one-third as long as the 

 second. Eyes moderately large, with about fifteen ocelli. 



Clypeus with the lobes short and widely rounded; epistome with 

 the superior margin curved, hardly extending beyoiid the front of the 

 head; front and top of the head smooth. 



The first segment of the thorax with the lateral margin with a high 

 crest, posteriorly less high and sub-equally cleft, the inner part being 

 a little smaller; the epimera of the second segment cleft, the inner 

 part the smallest. The posterior margins of the segments slightly 

 sinuated on both sides. The terminal segment of the abdomen is a little 

 wider than long, scarcely compressed in the middle, posteriorly trun- 

 cate, convex above. The basal article of the uropoda is longer than 

 wide, for a short time narrower at the apex; outer branch very small, 

 in the form of a little point, inserted near the apex; inner branch short. 



Color, uniformly brown or reddish brown. Length, -i.5 to 5.5 mm. 

 Width, 2.5 to 3 mm. rt 



CUBARIS CALIFORNICA (Budde-Lund). 



Ariii<li//u Kfii'dnxiiK STI-.\BER<J, 0fversigt af Yetensk. Akad. Forhamll., 1875, No. 



2, p. 62. 

 Armadillo calif arnica BUDDE-LUND, Crust. Isop. Terrestria, 1885, p. 40. 



rrtlifornini RICHARDSON, Pro*.:. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXI, 199, p. 865; Ann. 



Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), IV, 1899, p. 333; American Naturalist, XXXIV, 1900, 



p. 305. 



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



Ovalis, valde convexus, la-vis, glaber, subnitidus. 



Antenn;i- exteriores dimidio corporis paulo breviores, gracilis; Hagelli articulus 

 prior altero triplo brevior. 



Oculi mediocres; ocelli circiter 15. 



Clypeus lobis brevibus, late rotundatis; epistoma margine stiperiore curvato, 

 frontem vix superante; frons et vertex Itevia. 



Trunci annulus primus margine laterali altecincto, post minus profunde et sub- 

 sequaliter fisso, parte interiore paulo minore; epimera annuli secundi fissa, parte 

 interiore minima. Margo posterior annulorum leviter utrinque sinuatus. 



Caudje annulus analis paulo latior (mam longior, medio vix coarctato, post recte 

 truncatus, supra convexus. Articulus basalis pedum analium paulo longior quam 

 latior, ad apicem paulisper angustatus; ramus exterior minutissimus, punctiforrnis, 

 apici proprius insertus; ramus interior brevis. 



Color brunneus vel rufobrunneus, uniformis. 



Longitudo 4.5-5.5 mm., latitudo 2.5-3 mm. BUDDE-LUND, Crust. Isup. Terrestria, 

 1885, p. 32. 



