TERRESTRIAL ISOPODA OF NATAL. 229 



Contributions to a Knowledge of the Terrestrial 

 Isopoda of Natal. 



Part II. 

 By 



Walter JE. Colliii^e, D.Sc, F.L..S., etc., 

 Carnegie Fellow, and Researcli Fellow of the University of St. Andrews. 



With Plate XIV. 



The peculiar and interesting genus here described was 

 discovered by Dr. Conrad Akerman at Umhlali, Natal, in 

 May, 1916, and I have much pleasure in associating with 

 it his name as a slight appreciation of his indefatigable 

 energy and labours in connection with the elucidation of the 

 Terrestrial Isopoda of Natal. 



There are a number of characters which separate the 

 genus Akermania from any hitherto described, not the least 

 striking being the shape of the cephalon, the folded coxo- 

 podite beneath the pleural plates of the 1st mesosomatic 

 segment, the feeble walking legs on segments 2 — 7, the short 

 expanded uropoda with their characteristic setge, and the 

 shape of the telson. 



As to the relationship with other genera, it is somewhat 

 difficult to place this new genus. The oral appendages afford 

 no assistance. In all probability it belongs to the Cubaridse, 

 but it is widely separated from Cubaris Brandt, or any of 

 the allied genera. 



