iQii.] T. R. R. Stebbing : Indian Isopods. 187 



Cicindela-lsiTvae , M. Simon could not decide whether the isopod 

 borrowed its habitation from some insect, or whether its own 

 excavating activity would account for the extreme rugosit^^ of its 

 anterior segments. This problem awaits solution. 



In the specimens here dealt with the head shows at the 

 middle anteriorly a set of four or more unequal warts followed 

 on either side by a widely diverging line of four larger warts ^ or 

 three sets of four subequal warts. The first peraeon segment has 

 fourteen, the second thirteen, large teeth cresting the hind mar- 

 gin, the third segment has twelve or thirteen smaller teeth or 

 warts similarly placed. Lateral!}' above the crests there are 

 groups of four warts on the first, and of three on the second and 

 third segments. The hind margin of the fourth segment has a 

 fringe of very obscure little warts. The telsonic segment is consi- 

 derabl}^ broader than long, with sinuous sides, faintly grooved 

 down the middle to the very narrowly rounded apex. 



Eyes small, dark, ocelli about 20. 



The second antennae have the first joint of the flagellum a 

 little longer than the second, the latter ending in a little process 

 which, but for its minuteness, might pass for a joint rather than 

 an apical spine. 



Upper lip broad, in the dissected specimen showing no mar- 

 ginal hairs. 



Mandibles with strongly dentate cutting- plates , adjoining 

 which are a series of setules and several slender spines, to which 

 succeeds the short stalked brush-like process implanted near a 

 strong smooth projection of the trunk. 



The first maxillae have the outer plate surmounted by three 

 (or four, see Budde-Lund, 1908) strong and six very slender spines, 

 all apparently smooth-edged. The inner plate has on the inner 

 part of the apex two strong setulose setae of which the inner is the 

 longer. At the apex of the outer margin is a minute spine. In 

 Uljanin's H. elegans the margin is itself produced to a sharp point. 



The maxillipeds have on or near the distal margin of the 

 masticatory plate three minute spines, and two larger spines below. 

 The short broad first joint of the palp displays one large spine; 

 the conical second joint has on its inner margin one curved spine 

 and a smaller spine between that and the small narrow third joint 

 which carries two apical spines. 



The first pleopods of the male have the inner plate ending in 

 a broad pectinate spine, that plate in the second pair having a 

 needle-like apex. The peduncle of the uropods is about as broad 

 as long ; the narrow inner rami reach a little beyond the telsonic 

 segment, the conical outer rami reaching beyond the inner, but 

 with a length not equal to the peduncles. 



lycngth of measured specimen 15 mm., with a breadth of 

 about 5 mm. Specimen figured rather larger. 



Locality. — The specimens sent by Dr. N. Annandale were 

 labelled as having been obtained at Quetta, under date 6-iv-o8 ; by 

 Mr. J. W. N. Gumming. 



