10 CARL BOVALLIUS, NEW ISOPODA. III. 



Coloiir. Brownisli yellow. 



Length. IG mm. 



Hah. The coast of Java. (S. ]\I.) 



The only specimen hithcrto known was captured by 

 the late Captain Georg von Schéele, of the swcdish ship 

 Monarch, in the vear 1884. 



3. Nerocila laticeps, n. sp. 



Diagn. Corpxis ovatum. duplo longius quam latius. 



Caput magnum. duplo latius quam longius. 



Oculi distincti, ovati. 



Antennas primi paris sex-articulatae, articulo primo crasso. 

 AntenniE secundi paris antenuis primi paris longiores. 



Epimera segmentorum secundi. tertii et quarti segmenta 

 superantia. Epimera segmenti quinti segmentum sequantia. Epi- 

 mera segmentorum sexti et septimi segmenta multo breviora. 



Segmentum primum plei secundo brevius. Anguli inferiores 

 segmenti secundi angulos segmenti quinti explentes. 



Ramus interiör pcdum uri exteriore paulo brevior et angustior. 



The body is ovate, twice as long as broad. 



The head is large, twice as broad as long. 



The eyes are distinct, ovate. 



The first pair of antennoi are six-jointed, the first joint is 

 thick. The second pair are longer than the first pair. 



The epimerals of the second, third and fourth segments 

 are longer than the correspouding segments; the ones of the 

 fifth segment are as lono- as the segment. The ones of the 



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sixth and sevcnth scsments are much shorter than the seoments. 



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The first segment of the pleon is shorter than the seoond. 

 The lower corners of the second segment reach to the upper 

 corners of the fifth. 



The inner ramus of the uropoda is a little shorter and 

 narrower than the outer. 



Nerocila laticeps comcs nearest to N. maculata, IMilne 

 EDWARDt! and K. latiuscula, Dåna, but is to be distinguished 

 from the first by the broad head, the prominent hinder corners 

 of the fifth pereional segment, by the short, first pleonal segment 

 and by the narroAv, inner ramus of the uropoda, from the latter 

 by the Icngth of the hinder corners of the last pereional segments, 

 by the length of the infcrior corners of the second pleonal seg- 



