152 Xtciiollr and Barnes. — Two New renrsirial Isopods. 
ar.teriorly, truneatc luul reAnivvi'd poHteriorly and slightly excavate |j 
laterally. It bears tvo spines anteriorly. ji 
The Vropodo (PI. XIX, figs. 10 and 11) are short and small, ' 
rot (‘xtending beyond tin* telson, and occupying the space between 
+he e])iiu(n'a of the fifth st'gmeiit and the terminal segment. The 
peduncles are large, broader than long and roughly x^mtagoiial in 
sha])e. The whole surface is covered with overlapping scales which 
in one region form an oblicpie ri<lge, a number of layers in thick- 
jK'ss. The exo])odite, if present, should be situated on the distal 
Olid t:-f this ridge, but is apparently absent or so very greatly 
i-(uluce<l as to b(‘ unreoogiiizable. The endo])odite does not reach 
ro the end of the terminal segnieiit, is slender and bears apically 
a long s])ine and two smaller oiu's. The whole of its surface Is 
oovcrcul witli fine setao, 
Tho n-(ill:inf/ Jr</s are all alike, ambulatory, and very feebly ' 
dev(‘lo]'ed. 
Kid. 1 — Cnl)ari,s wiJf>)nor<'i, male; a. endopodite of first ])leopod; 
h, second ])leopod; r, exo])odite of third pleopod; d, exopodite 
of fourth })leopod ; r, endopodite of fourth pleopod. Keniale; 
second pleo])od; r/, exopodite of tliird jileojiod; Ji, exopodite 
of fouith pleopod. 
