ISOPODS 



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ASELLOTA or ASELLOIDEA. 



Family JANIRID^. 



JANIROPSIS KINCAIDI sp. nov. 



Type from Yakutat Bay, Alaska. 



Color of body light brown, profusely and densely covered with black 

 markings. 



Head wider than long; frontal margin nearly straight, with lateral 

 angles rounded. Eyes large, black, situated some little distance from the 



lateral margin. First pair of antennae short ; flagel- 



lum consisting of only eight joints in the female, of 



ten in the male. Second pair 



of antennte lost in all the speci- / j^?w7.,i„y/ 



mens. Maxillipeds with palp 



consisting of five joints, the 



first three of which are very 



much dilated. 



First segment of thorax with 



lateral margins straight; epi- 



mera rather bilobed, and oc- 

 cupying most of the lateral F1G..103. Maxiiiiped (X77)- 



margin of the segment. Second, third, fourth, and 



fifth segments with antero-lateral angles produced 



into rounded lobes. 



Epimera of second and 



third segments situated 



about the middle of the 



lateral margin ; those 



of the fourth and fifth 



segments occupying 



more of a posterior 



position on the lateral 



margin. Epimera of the 



last two segments situ- 

 ated at the post-lateral 



angles of the segments. 



Abdomen broad, gradually becoming 



somewhat narrower toward the posterior 



extremity. Posterior margin produced in three lobes, two lateral lobes, 



one on either side of a broadly rounded median lobe ; the two lateral 



Fig. 102. Janiropsis kin- 

 caidis^. nov. (X 27)- 



Fig. 104 



Last thoracic segment, ab- 

 domen, and uropoda (X 41)- 



