NO. 1175. ISOPODS OF THE PACIFIC COAST— RICHARDSON. 865 



Family XIV. ARMADILLIDIDJE. 



33. CUBARIS Brandt. 



Outer branch of the uropoda small or minute, rather smooth. Ter- 

 minal segment not shorter than uropoda. Terminal segment i)0ste- 

 riorly truncate. Clypeus very short, with the superior margin entire, 

 lobated at the sides. Terminal abdominal segment subtetragonal. 

 External branch of the uropoda inserted in the middle of the internal 

 lateral margin of the basal joint. 



ANALYTICAL KEY TO THE SPECIES OF CUBARIS. > 



a. Lastabdominalsegmeiit longer than broad. 80. Cubans calif ornica {BwAdm-ljXLnA) . 



a'. Last abdominal segment a little transverse, with median constriction. Antennie 



minntely roughened 81. Cubaris affinis (Dana). 



80. CUBARIS CALIFORNICA (Budde-Lund). 



Armadillo speciosus Stuxberg, 0fversigt af Vetensk. Akad. Forhandl., 1875, No. 



2, p. 62. 

 Armadillo californica Budde-Lund, Crust. Isop. Terrestria., 1885, p. 40. 



Habitat. — OaUfornia : San Francisco and San Pedro. 

 Budde-Lund^ remarks that perhaps this species does not differ from 

 Cubaris affinis (Dana). 



8i. CUBARIS AFFINIS (Dana). 



S2)herillo affinis Dana, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VII, 1854, p. 176. — Stimpson, 



Journ. Bos. Soc. Nat. Hist., "VI, 1857, p. 65. 

 Armadillo affinis Budde-Lund, Crust. Isop. Terrestria, 1885, p. 39. 



Habitat, — California. 



Family XV. LIGIID^. 



ANALYTICAL KEY TO THE GENERA OF LIGIIDzE. 



a. Uropoda equal in length, styliform, often filiform. Interior mala of the man- 

 dibles with numeroiTs pencils of hairs. Last segment of body broad, with 

 distinct epimeral plates. Maxillipeds with palp four to five jointed; epignath 



rounded 34. Ligia. 



a'. Uropoda unequal in length. 



b. Extremity of uropods furnished with two long apical bristles. Interior mala of 

 right mandible with three pencils of hairs, of left mandible with five pencils 

 of hairs. Last segment of body small and without any epimeral plates. Max- 

 illipeds with a five-jointed palp; epignutb narrow, lingniform . . 35. Ligidium. 

 h' . Extremity of uropods not furnished with two long apical bristles. 



36. Styloniscus. 



' Cubaris is oldest synonym of preoccupied Armadillo (Stebbiag, Hist, of Cruet., 

 1893, p. 433). 



-Crust. Isop. Terrestria, 1885, p. 40. 

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