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 antennae lost in all the speci- 

 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 FIG.. 103. Maxiiiiped (x 77)- 

 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 

 nov. (x 27). angles of the segments. 

 Abdomen broad, gradually becoming 



FIG. 104. Last thoracic segment, ab- 



somewhat narrower toward the posterior domen, anduropoda(X4i)- 

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

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



