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inner side) . The outer branch is longer than the inner branch being two 



and a half times as long as the peduncle (measured from the inner side). 



All the legs are ambulatory. In color the specimens, six in number, 



are dark brown with patches of yellow, the lighter colored patches 



a. b. c. d. 



Fig. 10. Philoscia auslralis. a. Maxilliped. b. Second maxilla, c. Outer lobe 

 of first maxilla, d. Extremity of second maxilla. 41. X 



uniting in the middle to form a longitudinal stripe, and with larger 

 patches on the sides of the segments and on the postlateral corner of 

 the epimera. 



Locality.— Nuka Hiva, Sept. 15, 1899. 



This species is probably close to Philoscia truncata Dollfus, which also 

 has the postlateral angles of the seventh thoracic segment truncate. 



Porcellio laevis Latreille. 



Porcellio laevis Latreille, Hist. nat. crust, et inscctes, 1804, 7, p. 46; 

 Richardson, Bull. 54 U. S. N. M., 1905, p. 614-616. 



Localities. — Easter Island, under rocks, forty-nine specimens; 

 Tahiti, two specimens. 



Porcellio scaber Latreille. var. marmorata. 



Porcellio scaber Latreille, Hist, crust, et insectes, 1804, 7, p. 45; Richardson, 

 BuU. 54, U. S. N. M., 1905, p. 621-624. 



Locality. — Easter Island. One specimen. 



Porcellionides pruinosus (Brandt), 



Porcellio pruinosus Brandt, Bull. Soc. imp. nat. Moscow, 1833, 6, p. 19. 

 MetoponorUtus pruinosus Richardson, Bull. 54, U. S. N. M., 1905, p. 627-629. 

 Porcellionides pruinosus Stebbing, Records Indian mus., 1911, 6, p. 189. 



Locality,— Tahiti, five specimens ; Fakarava, Paumotus, one speci- 

 men. 



