118 Records of the Indian Museum. LVor. nin 
This author’s attempts at classification were frequently unfor- 
tunate, as in the present instance. He approached more closely 
to a sound classification perhaps in rgto than in any of his 
previous or later writings, but did not seem able to decide upon 
any system or parts, other than the oral appendages, which fre- 
quently misled him. 
I hope at a later date, when more of the Indian and Asiatic 
species have been worked out, to submit a revision of the Family 
Armadillidiidae founded upon structural characters, in the mean- 
time I am provisionally placing all the Indian forms in the one 
genus, 
Cubaris gravelii, n. sp. 
(Pl. x, figs. I—1r). 
Body oblong oval, slightly convex, smooth. Cephalon (figs. I 
and 2) small, strongly marginate anteriorly and posteriorly, lateral 
lobes small, median lobes absent ; epistoma vertical with triangu- 
lar-shaped depression in the medio-anterior line. Antennulae 
(fig. 3) small, 3-jointed, terminal joint pointed with number of fine 
setae laterally, proximal joints globose, distal joint attenuated. 
Antennae (fig. 4) short, sparsely setaceous, joints 3—5 slightly 
grooved on their outer side; flagellum 2-jointed, the distal joint 
being the longer. First maxillae (fig. 5), outer lobe terminating in 
four stout incurved spines and four smaller inner ones. Second 
maxillae (fig. 6) thin and plate-like, terminating distally in a 
bilobed manner, the outer lobe is fringed with setae, and those on 
the inner one form a brush-like lobe. Segments of the mesosome 
convex, lateral plates of 2nd to 4th segments slightly excavate, 
remainder truncate, posterior angles only slightly produced back- 
wards. Segments r and 2 with notch and groove on their lower 
inner margins for reception of succeeding segments (fig. 7). Maxilli- 
pedes (fig. 8), outer palp terminates in a multispinous process on 
the outer side, with a very small spine and then two larger ones 
below it, from the base of the outer palp are three large spines, the 
inner palp is very broad and has two spines with wide bases, and 
one short, blunt, tooth-like one on the innermost border and a 
longer pointed one on the lower margin. Uropoda (figs. 9 and ro) 
not extending beyond the telson, basal plate narrow posteriorly , 
thickened and convex dorsally, antero-dorsal surface prominent ; 
exopodite articulating in deep groove on the inner border of the 
basal plate, which here is slightly excavate, endopodite setaceous, 
with two long whip-like setae terminally. Telson (fig. 11) longer 
than the breadth at the posterior margin which is slightly curved, 
expanded anteriorly, somewhat flattened. Length 12 mm. Colour 
(in alcohol) dark horny-brown with few lighter lateral flecks on the 
mesosomatic segments. 
Habitat.—Pass between Chaibassa and Chakardharpur, Chota 
Nagpur, 24-iii-13. No. sso+ (F. H. Gravely). 
Type.—In the collection of the Indian Museum. 
