ISOPODS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



605 



"The legs increase slightly in length from before backward and are 

 furnished with long acute spines. The uropods are broken off. 



"From Cule})ra. Two specimens, under drift on shore, 4.2 by 1.6 

 mm." — Moore. ^' 



PHILOSCIA VITTATA Say. 



Philoscia vittata Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I, 1818, p. 429. — De Kay, 

 Zool. New York, Crust., 1844, p. 50. — White, List Crust. Brit. Museum, 

 1847, p. 99. — Hakger with Vekrill, Report U. S. Commissioner of Fish and 

 Fisheries, 1873, Pt. 1, p. 569 (275); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., II, 1879, p. 157; 

 Report U. S. Commissioner of Fisli and Fislieries, 1880, Pt. 6, pp. 306-307, 

 pi. I, fig. 1. — Undekwooi), Bull. 111. 

 State Lab. Nat. Hist., II, 1886, p. 

 361. — Richardson, American Natu- 

 ralist, XXXIY, 1900, p. 305; Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1901, p. 

 565. — Paulmier, Bull. New York 

 State Museum, 1905, p. 181. 



Localities. — Great Egg Harbor, 

 New Jersey, to Barnstable, Massa- 

 chusetts; Salem, Massachusetts; Free- 

 port, Long Island. Found under 

 stones, wood, etc., in moist places; 

 under rubbish along the shore; under- 

 side of boards above high water. 



Body oblong-ovate, a little more 

 than twice as long as wide, 3 mm. : 

 t)i mm. 



Head wider than long, 1 mm.: 1^ 

 mm., with the antei-ior margin 

 rounded and not produced into a lobe. The antero-lateral angles of 

 the head are rounded and not produced into lobes. The eyes are small. 



-Philoscia vittata (After 

 Harger). X 0. 



Fk;. 062. — Philoscia vittata. n, Maxilliped. !>, Second maxilla, c, First maxilla (outer 

 LOBE), d. First maxilla (inner lobe), e, Mandible. /, Terminal segment of abdomen, 



with I'KOI'ODA. 



round, and composite, and situated in the antero-lateral angles of the 

 head. The first pair of antennae are small, rudimentary, and incon- 



«Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XX, Pt. 2, 1902, p. 176. 



