NO. 1729. 



I80PODS FROM PERI RICHARDSON. 



85 



rounded. Near the base on either side is a small notch probabl} 

 indicating the first fused segmenj . There arc no pleopods or uroppds. 



One male and one female were collected at Matapalo (near Capon , 

 Peru. They were taken from the branchial cavity of Petrolisthes 

 armatus (Gibbes) which was found in oyster beds. 



Type-specimen. Cat. No. 40133, U.S.N.M. 



ADDITIONAL [SOPODS KNOWN" FROM PERU. 



ANILOCRA LjEVIS Miers. 



Anilocra isevis Miers, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, L877, i>. 672, pi. 68, fig. <>. 

 Localities. -Martinique; Peru. 



CYMOTHOA OESTRUM (Linnaeus). 



(?) Oniscus oestrum Lixx.ecs, Syst. Nat., 1-th ed., 17(i(i, p. 1059. Fabricius, 

 Syst. Ent., 1775, p. 294. 



Cymothoa us/rum Fabricics, Syst. Ent., vol. 2, 17!):!, p. ">o.">. Leach, Trans. 

 Linn. Sbc, vol. 11, 1815, p. 372.— -Desmarest, Cons. Gen. Crust., 1825, 

 p. 309, pi. 47, figs. 6, 7.— Milne Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., vol. 3, 1840, 

 p. 209; Regno Anim. Cuvier (ed. Crochard), Crust., pi. 45, tin'. 1. Spen< i: 

 Bate and Westwood, Hist. Brit. Sessile-eyed Crust., 1868, vol. 2, p 274, 

 footnote. — Miers, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877, p. 671.— Schicedte ftnd 

 Meixert, Nat. Tidsskr. (3), vol. 14, 1883, p. 271, pi. S, figs. 5-6. 



Fig. 6.— Cymothoa ocstrum (after Schioedte # and Meinert). o, youNG oi < 



I ENLARGED). 6, YOl NG OF THE FIRST STAGE (ENLARGED). C, LATERAL VIEW OF rHORAX OF U 

 FEMALE (REDUCED), d, ADULT MALE (ENLARGED) 6, ADULT FEMAL1 (REDUC1 



(REDUCED). 



Localities. — Virginia, southward throughout the Gulf of Mexico and 

 Caribbean Sea; Pern (according to Miers). Parasitic on fish. 



