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Antennae very slender, with flag-ellum composed of three articu- 

 lations. Mandibles with only single pencil behind cutting part. 

 Legs very slender and greatly increasing in length posteriorly. 

 Opercular plates of uropoda without any air-cavities and scarcely 

 bilobed. Uropoda not much produced, with inner ramus not 

 attached so far in front as usual. 



Philoscia vittata Say. 



Plate 66. 



Philoscia vittata Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I, 1818, p. 429. United 

 States. 



De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Crust., VI, 1844, P- 50. (New York.) 



Harger, Rep. U. S. F. Com., I, 1871-72 (1873). p. 569. Connecticut 



to New Jersey. 



■ Harger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., II, 1879, p. 157. Far north as Barn- 

 stable, Massachusetts. 



Harger, Rep. U. S. F. Com., VI, 1879 (1880), pp. 306, 433. PI. i, fig. i. 



Somers Point and Beesley's Point, New Jersey. 



■ Budde-Lund, Crust. Isopod. Terr., 1885. p. 209 (compiled). 



Underwood, Bull. 111. Lab. N. Hist., II, 1886, p. 361. New Jersey. 



(Connecticut and Massachusetts.) 



H. Richardson, Amer. Nat., XXXIV, 1900, p. 305. North America. 



• H. Richardson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1901, p. 565. Great 



Egg Harbor, New Jersey, to Massachusetts. 



Paulmier, 58th Rep. N. Y. State Mus., IV, 1904, p. 181, fig. 53. Free- 

 port, Long Island. 



H. Richardson, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 54, 1905. p. 605. figs. 661 



to 663. Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, to Massachusetts. (Freeport, 

 Long Island.) 



M. J. Rathbun, Occas. Papers Boston Soc. N. Hist., VII, 190?, p. 45. 



(Massachusetts and Connecticut.) 



Description. — Body a trifle over twice as long as broad. Head 

 broader than long, front edge convex, not lobate. Anterior 

 lateral angles of head rounded, not formed into lobes. Eyes 

 composite, small, rounded, and placed on the anterior lateral 

 angles of head. First antennae small, rudimentary, obsolete. 

 Second antennae long, first segment short and robust, second 

 and third segments subequally long with each more than double 

 length of first, fourth segment nearly twice length of either 

 two preceding, and fifth segment one and one-half longer than 



