NO. 2123. CRUSTACEA COLLECTED IN COLOMBIA— PEAR8E. 



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in brooks, and in bromeliads. At the top of San Lorenzo it was 

 found in the ground under leaves and in a little brook that started 

 there. Those taken at high altitudes are darker in color in alcohol. 



LEPTOTRICHUS GRANULATUS Richardson. 



Thirty specimens of this interesting isopod were collected — under 

 some bricks in the patio of our house in Santa Marta; in a log in 

 an ant's nest and under leaves in the forest at Fundacion; under 

 the bark of a rough tree near "La Rosa." It has previously been 

 reported only from the Bermudas, where it was found in dead coral. 



CUBARIS CINCTA (Dollfus)? 



A small specimen, probably referable to this species, was taken in 

 the forest under leaves on the ground near the Cincinnati Coffee 

 Plantation. Previously recorded from Layon, West Indies. 



CUBARIS BREVISPINIS, new species. 



Holotype. — Cat. No. 45981, Museum of Zoology, University of 

 Michigan. Collected on trail above Minca, Sierra Nevada de Santa 

 Marta, Colombia, 2,200 feet elevation, by A. S. Pearse, July 15, 1913. 

 Orig. No. 91. 



Paratypes.—C&t. No. 47944, U.S.N.M. 



Body contractUe, capable of being rolled into a ball; dorsal surface 

 covered with strong spines; color brown with a narrow horn-colored 



Fig. 5.— Cubaris brevispinis. a, antenna; e, ventral surface of rrasT two epimeea; h, head; t, 



telson; u, uropod. 



margin along the lateral and posterior borders of aU free somites, 

 and with some irregular white spots. Length 9, width 4.3 mm. 



Head wider than long ; front straight ; anterolateral angles rounded. 

 A transverse row of four small spines in front; six larger spines be- 

 hind. Eyes small, rounded, with 16 facets. First antenna small and 

 inconspicuous; second having flageUum composed of two articles, the 

 second of which is twice as long as the fii'st (fig. 5). 



