NO. 1894. ISOPODF^ FROM JAMAICA— RICHARDSON. 189 



dorsal surface; tlie egg mass is a bright green-blue; the eyes are brown. 

 In the younger, or smaller individuals the star-shaped marks are con- 

 fluent over the whole surface of the thorax and abdomen. The horns 

 between eyes are very small. The frontal liorn is large and broad, 

 rounded. The eyes are large and close together. Twelve specimens, 

 parasitic on lane snapper ( Neoinsenis synagris) . The color is wl lite, tlie 

 dorsal surface with one or two rows of bro\vn star-shaped spots across 

 each segment; the eyes are dark blue-black. The frontal horn is 

 very large, rounded, produced, upturned. The eyes of both sexes are 

 large and close together. Eight specimens, parasitic in eye sockets 

 of the yellow-tail (Ocyunis chrysurus). Tlie color is Hglit brownish- 

 yellow, with a row of brown star-shaped spots across each segment 

 on tlie dorsal surface; the eyes are dark seal-brown; the egg masses 

 are a bright salmon-piiik. All the horns on the head are small, the 

 two posterior ones ahnost obsolete. The eyes in botli sexes are very 

 large and close together. Four specimens, parasitic in tlie eyes of the 

 yellow-tail (Ocyurus chrysurus) . The color is a light yellowish- white, 

 eaclx segment \vith a single row of brown spots across the dorsal sur- 

 face. The eyes are very large and close together, almost confluent 

 in one specimen. One specimen, from the fins of the sea-pcrcupine 

 (Diodon Tiystrix). The color is gray-wliite, with a row of brown star- 

 shaped spots across the dorsal surface of each segment ; the eyes are 

 dark brown. This is probably an immatm'e female. (Collected by 

 C. B. Wilson.) 



One specimen from White Rock, from the gill cavity of the rock- 

 hind {Epinephelus adscencionis) . The color of the ventral surface is 

 white, of the dorsal surface white, nearly covered ^\^th a loose pattern 

 of light reddisli-brown; the eyes are black; the claws on the tips of 

 the legs red-brown; the legs themselves white. 



FamUy ^GID^E. 



ROCINELA SIGNATA Schioedte and Meinert. 



Rocincla signala Schicedte and Meinert, Nat. Tidsskr. (3), vol. 12, 1879-80, 

 pp. 399-401, pi. 13, figs. 3-6.— Moore, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 20, 

 pt. 2, 1900, p. 171, pi. 10, fig. 2.— Richardson, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 

 54, 1905, pp. 209-210. 



Locality. — Montego Bay; parasitic on the French grunt (Ilaemulon 

 flavolineatum) . The color is beautifully variegated in delicate shades 

 of brown, pmk, and gra}'". The head and first thrco segments antl 

 the abdomen are delicate pink with, fine dots and lines of retl-brown 

 on the dorsal surface; the remaining thoracic segments are a light 

 olive-gray, mtli variegated spots, lines, and blotches of dark olive- 

 green, the fourtli segment with a prominent wide transvei'so band 

 of dark bro\\ii spots; all the segments have a narrow band of rod- 

 brown on the lateral margins; the tclson has a central crescent of 

 black spots shaped like this jf'''[[^; the eyes light pink; the egg mass 

 is jet-black. 



