WESTWOOPILLA CCECULA. 



155 



AMP R IP 01) A. 



PH OX IDES. 



WESTWOODILLA CCECTLA. 



Specific character. Antennce subequal. A central nucleus to each cell in 

 the microscopical structure of the skin. 

 Length, 5 4 g inch. 



Westwoodilla caecuta. SPENCE BATE, Cat. Brit. Amph. Brit. Mus. p. 102. 

 Westwoodea cceculus. SPENCE BATE, Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1855, p. 58. 

 Westwoodia c&cula. SPENCE BATE, Synop. Ann. Nat. Hist. 1857, 2 ser. 



xix. p. 139. WHITE, Hist. Brit. Crust, p. 172. 



THE animal has the head considerably produced, and 

 anteriorly depressed, having the frontal margin rounded. 

 The eye appears to stand upon a process of the head, 

 between and above the superior antennas, but not to be 

 in connection with the projected hood-like process. It 

 is of a dull red-purple colour, but without a clearly-de- 

 fined outline, a circumstance that has led to the selection 

 of the specific name, as it has every appearance of being 

 an imperfect organ of vision. The antennae are nearly of 

 equal length ; the superior are scarcely longer than the 

 head, they have the first two joints of the peduncle 



