IrtOPODS OF XoRTH AMERICA. 



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bnuicli is not visihh' IVoiii I lie doi-ssil side. I ' iKlcnicat li. on (he ven- 

 tral side, it is sniiill and clono-jited. (wtendinu" only li;dl' the it'ii^tli of 

 the tcM'ininal soo-nicnt. 



CUBARIS CINCTA (Dollfus). 



Armadillo chicli(!< Dollkis, Froc. Zuul. 6oc. Luiuluii, 1S9(), p. 392. 

 Ciiharis cinctiii^ Richardson, Proc. l^. S. Nat. Mns., XXIII, 1901, p. ri72. 



LocaJlty. — Near Layon, West Indies. On rotten \vt)od, dry forest. 



'" Body moderately convex, rather wide, depnvssed on the fore and 

 hind parts of the segments, with a transverse rano-e of tubercles on 

 each seg-ment. Cephalon : prosepistoma nearly plain, fore edge straight. 

 Eves middling; ocelli about IT). Antenna^: first joint of the flagellum 



Fig. 090.— Cubaris cincta (After Dollfus). «, Head a.nu firm two .skgmext.s of thorax 

 (FPPF.R SIDE). 6, The same (underside), r, Fifth and sixth segments of abdomen and uro- 



PODA (upper side). (/, THE SAME (UNDERSIDE). 



twiee as short as the second. Pereion: first segment with a double 

 antero-median tu))ercle; lateral edges raised; coxopodite distinct and 

 divergent on the third hind part of the edge (underside), Coxopodite 

 of the second segment forming a narrow, quadrangular processus. 

 Pleon, telson: pleotelson as long as wide, with a triangular tubercle 

 near its basis; sides curved; a[)ex one-foui'th narrower than the basis. 

 I'l-opoda: basis nearly straight; endopodite very small, extending 

 haiilly to one-sixth the length of the pleotelson; exopodite minute, 

 placed above the middle of the internal edge of the basis (upperside). 

 Color: dark gray, with small lighter lineola' on both sides of the median 

 line (pereion) and three light dots on the pleotelson. Dimensions; 

 Ti by 3imm." — Dollfus.'' 



«Proc. Zool. Poc. London, lS9r), j). 392. 



