ISOPOD GENUS LIGIBIUM. 



835 



from brown of tergite at the suture. Legs banded with yellow 

 and brown. 



Distribution . San Francisco. 



Text-figure 8, 



Lic/idium latum, a, licail from front ; h, 1st tergite, liitcval edge ; c &, d, endppod ' 

 of 1st ami 2ii(l plcopods, (J; e, uropod from below. 



'" This species is distinguislied from all but L. nodidosum by its 

 \(ivy distincbive rough suiface. It differs from tliat species in 

 tlie character of the granulations and the form of the 1st somite. 



5. LiGiDiuM GEUMANicuM VerhoefF. (Text-fig. 9.) 



Ligidiion (jermanicum Yerhoefl' (1901). p. 41 ; Verhoeifi'(1918), 

 p. 114. 



Ligidium herzegowinense VerhoefF (1918), p. 114; Dahl (1916 

 &]917). 



Length 7 mm. Breadth 2*5 mm. 



Surface smooth and shining. Head. Frontal margin slightly 

 sinuate, median V almost obsolete, nob produced. Transverse 

 groove deep and passing behind eyes ; frontal grooves shallow 

 and curved, passing into transverse groove at less than a i-ight 

 angle. Eyes large and pear-shaped. Thorax. 1st somite without 

 latei'al depressions or bristle groups. Coxal plates : sutures 



