CAMBALOID MELLIPEDS — ^LOOMIS 61 



LEIODERE TORREYANA. new species 



Figure 19 ; Plate 2, Figukes 4, 5 



Numerous specimens, including the male type (U.S.N.M. no. 1313), 

 collected at Torrey Pines, La Jolla, Calif., January 11, 1925, by 

 H. G. McKeever and A. D. Harvey. Others collected by Dr. O. F. 

 Cook and H. F. Loomis at the same locality beneath stones on the 

 cliffs above the sea, intermixed with specimens of Pharodere radiata 

 and Odachurus petasatus^ November 26, 1925. Other specimens from 



20 miles below Tia Juana, Lower California, January 1925 by Dr. 

 O. F. Cook. 



Description. — Body 20 to 26 times as long as broad ; a large female 



21 mm long, 0.8 mm broad, with 58 segments ; another mature speci- 

 men has only 43 segments. Color in life dusky cream-white. 



PiGDRB 19.- 



-Leiodere torreyana, new genus and species : a. Antenna ; 6, midbody segment, 

 lateral view ; c, gonopods, anterior view. 



Head eyeless, surface smooth and shining. Antennae (fig. 19, a) 

 short and subclavate, separated by a distance equal to over half their 

 length; joints 2, 3, 5, and 6 subequal in length; joint 4 shorter than 

 any except the basal and apical joint, the latter a fifth as long as 

 joint 6; joint 5 widest. Labrum depressed at middle below the 

 level of the clypeus. Mandibulary stipes not prominent, slanting 

 slightly inward, the surface faintly convex and coarsely reticulated. 

 Gnathochilarium with sides almost parallel, converging toward the 

 base much less than in the other species. 



First segment as long as or a little longer than the next three 

 segments together; anterior edge subemarginate ; lateral margin ex- 



