TERRESTKIAL ISOPODA OF NATAL. 477 



Maxillipeds (fig. 35) witli wide lobes, outer lobe with few 

 sette on the end of the 3rd joint and two setose papilla) on 

 the 2nd joint, 1st joint nari-ow with two large spines; inner 

 lobe with setaceous pad terminally and circle of fine setae 

 below. The segments of the mesosome are almost subequal 

 excepting the 1st, the pleural plates of which are expanded 

 and flank the cephalon ; the remainder are flattened, with the 

 terminal margin truncate, 4-7 with the posterior nngle slightly- 

 produced backward. The nietasome is comparatively small, 

 the two first and part of the 3rd segment being covered by 

 the last mesosomatic segment. Uropoda (figs. 36 and 37) 

 with stout basipodite, thinner on the inner margin, exopodite 

 shoi't and conical, endopodite slightly shorter and more 

 slender, both setaceous and with fine terminal styles. Telson 

 (fig. 38) ti'iangular, apex rounded. 



Length 12 mm. 



Colour (in alcohol) yellow with brownish mottling, forming 

 a, broken median longitudinnl line. Posteriorly on each 

 segment of the mesosome and above the pleural plate is an 

 almost circular black spot. 



Habitat. — Winkle Spruit Beach, S. Coast, Natal, Dec. 

 1916 (C. Akerman). Salisbury Island, shore, in sand, 

 uncommon, Any-. 7th, 1916 (Bell-Marley). 



Type. — In the Natal Museum. 



This is a handsome and conspicuous species, and according 

 to Dr. Akerman common in the sand at the junction of vege- 

 tation and the beach. 



The lateral, brownish-black eye-like spots are faintly dis- 

 cernible on the tiny white young taken from the brood-pouch 

 of the female. 



Philoscia Latreille. 



4. Philoscia warreni Cllge. PI. XXVII, fig. 7. 



Philoscia warreni ClUje., Ami. Natal. Mu.s., 1917, vol. iii, p. 578. 



This interesting species seems to be widely distributed. 

 The following- are additional records : 



