ISOPODS 



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ASELLOTA or ASELLOIDEA. 



Family JANIRID^. 



JANIROPSIS KINCAIDI sp. nov. 



Type from Yakutat Bay, Alaska. 



Color of body light brown, profusely and densely covered with black 

 markings. 



Head wider than long; frontal margin nearly straight, with lateral 

 angles rounded. Eyes large, black, situated some little distance from the 



lateral margin. First pair of antennae short ; flagel- 



lum consisting of only eight joints in the female, of 



ten in the male. Second pair 



of antennas lost in all the speci- 

 mens. Maxillipeds with palp 



consisting of five joints, the 



first three of which are very 



much dilated. 



First segment of thorax with 



lateral margins straight; epi- 



mera rather bilobed, and oc- 

 cupying most of the lateral F'g. 103. MaxUiiped (x 77). 



margin of the segment. Second, third, fourth, and 



fifth segments with anterolateral angles produced 



into rounded lobes. 



Epimera of second and 



third segments situated 



about the middle of the 



lateral margin ; those 



of the fourth and fifth 



segments occupying 



more of a posterior 



position on the lateral 



margin. Epimera of the 



last two segments situ- 

 , . - ated at the post-lateral 



Jr IG. 102. JaKiropsis kin- 



catdis^. nov. (x 27). angles of the segments. 



Abdomen broad, gradually becoming 

 somewhat narrower toward the posterior '""^- To^.nXl'^^^o^^^riT:^: "*" 

 extremity. Posterior margin produced in three lobes, two lateral lobes, 

 one on either side of a broadly rounded median lobe ; the two lateral 



