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ISOPODA. 



NORMALIA. 



SPH^EROMIDJS. 



CAMPECOPEA HIRSUTA. 



Specific character. Hirsute ; sixth segment liaving the middle of the pos- 

 terior margin, armed with a long straight tooth, extending backwards. Colour 

 brown ; pleon marked with pale blue dots. 



Length, one-eighth of an inch. 



Oniscus hirsutus. MONTAGU, Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. p. 71, t. 6, f. 8. 

 Campecopea hirsuta. LEACH, Edinb. Enc. vii. p. 405. Trans. Linn. Soc. 



xi. p. 367. Dictionn. Sci. Nat. xii. p. 341. Suppl. 



Enc. Brit. i. 427. SAMOUELLE, Ent. Compend. 



p. 107. DESMAREST, Cons. Crust, p. 294, t. 47, f. 1. 



GUERIN-MENEVILLE, Icon. R. An. Crust, t. 30, f. 3. 



MILNE EDWARDS, Crust, iii. p. 220. WHITE, B. M. 



Cat. Brit. Crust, p. 78. Pop. Hist. Brit. Crust. 



p. 248, pi. xiv. f. 2. GOSSE, Man. Mar. Zool. i. 



fig. 238. 



THIS curious little species has the body oval, very con- 

 vex, and very much arched, the upper surface being very 

 hirsute ; the tail large, semicircular, very convex, and 



