568 WALTER E. OOrJJNGE. 



Unfortunately, many of the species are represented by 

 only single specimens, but as further collecting takes place 

 this will no doubt to a large extent be remedied. 



Although there are numerous papers treating of the 

 Terrestrial Isopoda of different regions of the African conti- 

 nent, but few of these relate to South African species, and 

 still fewer to those of Natal. 



Up to the present time nearly fift}- species have been 

 described from South Afi'ica, bnt only four or five of these 

 have been recorded from Natal ; judging from the collection 

 now in my hands (which includes examples of the genera 

 Cubaris Brandt, Philoscia Lafreille, Porcellionides 

 Miers, ? Niambia Budde-Lund, and others yet unidentified) 

 there can be little doubt but that a rich and varied fauna 

 awaits discovery. 



The eight species here described are referable to the 

 genera Cubaris ^raiic?^ and Philoscia l/a^re*7/e, and have 

 been chosen simply because there wei-e a number of examples 

 in each case. 



The two principal writers on the subject in the past are 

 Dollfus and Budde-Lund. The former in 1895 (14) described 

 seven new species from the Transvaal and Cape Colony, 

 whilst the latter has described a number of species from Cape 

 Colony and Natal (5-12), in some cases from single examples 

 only and in others without any figures, whilst many of his 

 Latin diagnoses are not sufficiently definite to enable identifi- 

 cation. It is only fair, however, to state that many of his 

 later species are fully and beautifully figured. 



I. DESCRIPTION OF New Speciks. 



CuBARis Brandt. 



The hitherto described species of this genus known from 

 South Africa have, with three exceptions, viz., C. flavescens 

 Brandt, C. nigricans Brandt, and C. limbatus Brandt, 

 all been placed in the genus Armadillo. As yet the known 



