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BULLETIN 'A, T^NITKD STATES NATIONAL MUSEITM. 



CUBARIS GIGAS Miers. 



Cnliarls gigas MiERf^, Proc. ZooL !Soc. Londdii, ]<S77, p. (166, pi. Lxviri, i\^. 1. 

 Armadillo gigas Biidde-Lcnd, Crust. Isop. Terrestria, 1885, p. 40. 

 Ciiharis gigas Richardson, Proc. T''. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1901, p. 572. 



Local'itij. -Nicanigua, near San .Iita?i. 



"Convex o])Iong"-oval, nearly smooth, .surface only very minutely 

 granulated, and with only very obscure indications of larger tubercles 

 on each side of the middle line. Head transverse, with the anterior 

 margin straight, reilexed at a right angle (as seen in a lateral view) 

 with the upper surface of the head, and (as seen in a dorsal view) also 

 forming a right angle with the lateral margins; antero-lateral lobes 

 wanting. First segment of the body very concave on the sides, with 



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Fk;. 091.— Cub.\ris gigas (After Miers). n, Abhumicn with cropopa (upper side), h. Head 



(UNDERSIDE) SHOWING ANTENN.E. C. LATERAL VIEW. \\. (/, IlKAD AND FIRST TUORACIC SEG- 



MENT (UPPER SIDE). 



the lateral margins strongly retiexed; all the segments distinctly flexed 

 backward on the sides, with the posterior margins angulate-excavate. 

 Terminal segment of the tail at)out as broad as long, with the sides 

 excavated; upper surface iiat, with a shallow depression on each side, 

 and a small median pit near the base. Antenna? with the flagellum 

 much shorter than the last joint of the peduncle, with the tirst joint 

 the shortest. Basal joint of the uropoda (viewed from above) oblong, 

 terminal (apparent lateral) joint cjuite minute. Colour light gray. 

 Length \0\ lines.''— Miers." 



CUBARIS AFFINIS (Dana). 



Spherillo nffinis D\N\, Proc. Acad Nat. Sci. Pliila., \'1I, 1854-55, p. 176.— Stimp- 



sox, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., VI, 1857, p. .505. 

 AnnadUU) affinin BuPDE-LrxD, C'rust. Isop. Terrestria, 1885, p. 39. 

 Cubaris (iffi'tiis Richardson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1901, p. 865. 



Locality. — California. 



Body superticially smooth and uniform; antenna? very finely rather 

 scai)rous, the last two articles together (the sixth and seventh) scarcely 



« Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1S77, j). 666. 



