654 BULLP]T1N 54, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Localltle><. — California at San Francisco and San Pedro. 



Budde-Lund suggests that this species may be identical with Cuharls 

 ajJini.K Dana. 



Inasmuch as the specitic name spectoxiisi is applied by Dana to another 

 species of Cuharis. Rudde-Lund suggests for this form the specific 

 name californ'ica. 



Body ovate, very convex, smooth and shining. Second antennte 

 with the second article three times longer than the first, the fifth arti- 

 cle straight, cylindrical, \'ery long; flagellum with the articles unequal 

 in length, the first one one-fourth as long as the second. The first four 

 segments of the thorax wdth the posterior margin slightly sinuate on 

 both sides, the three last segments very slightly sinuate. The epimera 

 are moderately large, with the anterior angles obliquely truncate, the 

 posterior angles of the first segment straight, roundly rectangular, 

 with the margin sulcate; those of the second, third, fourth, and fifth 

 segments gradually less widely rounded; those of the sixth and seventh 

 straight, rounded. The last segment of the al)domen b}^ no means 

 equal in width to the length. Color of the dorsal surface gra}^, with 

 a median line and a lateral series of large light spots on the epimera of 

 the segments of the body. Head very thickly spotted with light spots. 

 Abdomen gray, with the third segment bipunctate. Length 5.5 mm.; 

 width 8 mm.^' 



117. Genus PSEUDARMADILLO Saussure. 



Frontal margin of head produced in three processes, one median 

 and two lateral. Second pair of antenna? with the flagellum composed 

 of two articles, the first one of which is nuich shorter than the second. 

 Coxopodites present on the under side of the first two segments of the 

 thorax. Tei-minal segment of the body triangular In shape, with the 

 apex produced in a truncate process. Basal article of uropoda large, 

 filling the space between the lateral parts of the fifth abdominal and 

 the terminal abdominal segments and continuing the oval outline of 



"The above description is adapted from tlie foIlo-\ving one of Stuxber^'s: 



Annadillo ovalis, valde convexus, Ifevis, subnitiduH. 



Antennge exteriores articulo secundo trijilo longiore (luaiii priuio, (|niiit(> recto, 

 cylindrico, longissimo, fiagelli articidis iiipequalibus, interiorc qua(b-upIo breviore 

 quam exteriore. 



Trunci segtnenta (luattuor ]»ri()ra niargine postico utrinque leviter, {)Osteriora tria 

 levissime sinuata. Epimera inediocria, angulis anticis obliciue trunciitis, angidis 

 posticis jiriini segmenti subrectis, rotundate-rectangulis, niargine sulcatis, secnndi, 

 tertii, (}uarti, (ininti minus minns(jue late rotundatin, sexti et septimi subrectis, 

 rotundatis. 



Cauda' segmenUmi ultinnun latitudine minima longitudinem as^sequente. 



Color dorsi griseus, linea mediana serieque niacularum majorum laterali et epi- 

 meris segmentorum trunci i)allidioribus. Caput creberrime pallide punctulatum. 

 Cauda grisea, segniento tertio bipunetato. T.ongitudo 5.5 mm., latitudo 3 mm, — 

 Stuxbekg, 0fversigt af Vetensk. Akad. Forbandl., 1875, No. 2, p. 62. 



