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CRUSTACEA 



FAMILY 10. JANIEIDAE. 



Body flattened and similar to the Asellidae, with the side of the head 

 usually expanded under the eye; first pair of abdominal appendages in 

 the female form a single large opercular plate, and 

 in the male together with the second pair form 

 a compound operculum: 20 American species; 

 marine. 



1. JJERA Leach. First pair of antennae very 

 small; uropods very small: 2 American species. 

 J. marina (Fabricius) (Fig. 603). Body 

 oval, 5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, and very variable 

 in color, usually being mottled gray; legs ambu- 

 latory and triunguiculate : coast of New England ; 

 Europe; common between tide lines under stones 

 and seaweeds. 



2. JANIRA Leach. First pair of antennae and uropods well devel- 

 oped ; side of head not expanded, or but slightly so : 5 American species. 



J. alta (Stimpson) (Fig. 604). Length 7 mm.; 

 width 2 mm.; legs biunguiculate : Atlantic coast from 

 Nova Scotia to Virginia, from low-water mark to 500 

 fathoms. 



FAMILY 11. ONISCIDAE. 



Fig. 603 J&ra marina 

 (Harger). 



Fig. 604 Jantra 

 alta (Harger). 



The sow bugs. Terrestrial isopods with an 

 elliptical body, which is more or less flattened and 

 cannot be rolled into a ball (except Cylisticus con- 

 vexus) ; first antennae minute; second antennae long; 

 thorax with 7 and abdomen with 6 free segments; 

 legs ambulatory; 5 pairs of pleopods are respiratory plates, the second 

 pair in the male terminating in a pair of long slender stylets; uropods 

 long and terminal: common under logs, etc., and in other dark, damp 

 places on the land; 200 species, 30 American. 



Key to the genera of Oniscidae here described: 



a x Antennae ending with 3 short segments forming the flagellum. 



6 X Abdomen not abruptly narrower than thorax 1. ONISCDB 



6 2 Abdomen abruptly narrower than thorax 2. PHILOSCIA 



o. Antennae ending with a flagellum of 2 short segments. 

 Z>! Abdomen not abruptly narrower than thorax. 



<?! Body convex, can be rolled into a ball 3. CYLISTICUS 



c. Body flattened, cannot be rolled into a ball 4. POBCELLIO 



6, Abdomen abruptly narrower than the thorax 5. METOPONOBTHUS 



1. ONISCUS L. Body broad, flattened, with a granulated or tuber- 

 culated surface; antennae ending with 3 short segments; side of head 

 extended beneath the eyes: 1 species. 



