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CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. I-IIST. SURVEY. 



[Bull. 



Hole, Salem, and Beverly, Massachusetts ; New Haven, Connecti- 

 cut; Providence; Rhode Island; New York City, Schenectady, 

 New York; Rock Island, IlHnois ; Maine; Pennsylvania. 



This species is found under dead logs, leaves, and stones and 

 is common in hothouses. 



It may be recognized among the terrestrial Isopoda by the 

 even, rounded contour of the front and the pronounced antero- 

 lateral lobes of the head and the three joints of flagellum of 

 second antenna. 



Philoscia vittata Say. 



Fig. yT. Pliiloscia vittata. 



1818. Philoscia vittata. Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. 

 I, p. 429. 



1874. Philoscia vittata, Harger, Rept. U. S. Com. Fish, for 

 1871-2, p. 569. 



1880. Philoscia vittata, Harger, ibid., for 1878, p. 306, pi. 

 I, fig. I. 



1905. Philoscia vittata, Richardson, Bull. U. S. Nat. iMus., 

 No. 54, p. 605. 



Body oval, smooth, nearly three times as long as wide. Head 

 wider than long, with anterior margin rounded and antero-lateral 

 angles rounded and not produced to lobes. Eyes small, round, 

 compound, situated in antero-lateral angles of head. 



