. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. TYLOS LATREILLI Audouin and Savigny. Ti/los latreilli Audouin and Savigny, Descript. de I'Egypte, 1826, pp. 285-287, pi. XIII, fig. 1. Tylos armadillo Latreille, Cuvier, Regne Animal, 2d ed., IV, 1829, p. 142.— GuERiN, Iconogr. Crust, 1829-1843, p. 35, pi. xxxvi, fig. 4. Tylos latreilli Milne Edwards. Hist. Nat. Crust., Ill, 1840, p. 188; Regne Crust., 1849, pi. Lxx bis., fig. 2.—Lucas, Expl. d'Alg., I, 1849, p. 73.—Hel- ler, Verh. Ver., Wien, XVI, 1866, p. 732.—Miers, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, p. 674.—Budde-Lund, Crust


. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. TYLOS LATREILLI Audouin and Savigny. Ti/los latreilli Audouin and Savigny, Descript. de I'Egypte, 1826, pp. 285-287, pi. XIII, fig. 1. Tylos armadillo Latreille, Cuvier, Regne Animal, 2d ed., IV, 1829, p. 142.— GuERiN, Iconogr. Crust, 1829-1843, p. 35, pi. xxxvi, fig. 4. Tylos latreilli Milne Edwards. Hist. Nat. Crust., Ill, 1840, p. 188; Regne Crust., 1849, pi. Lxx bis., fig. 2.—Lucas, Expl. d'Alg., I, 1849, p. 73.—Hel- ler, Verh. Ver., Wien, XVI, 1866, p. 732.—Miers, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, p. 674.—Budde-Lund, Crust. Isop. Terrestria, 1885, pp. 273- 274 (see Budde-Lund for synonymy).—Dollfus, Bull. Soc. d'Etudes Scien- tifiques de Paris, 12th year, 1890, pi. i, fig. 4. Tylos armadillo Dollfus, Mem. Soc. Zool. de France, 1896, p. 550. Tylos latreilli Richardson, Trans. Conn. Acad. Sciences, XI, 1902, pp. 300-301, pi. XL, fig. 56. Localities.—Bermudas; Miami, Florida; Long Bird Island, Berum- das; also Algeria; Tunisie; Odessa. Body elliptical in outline, very convex, and able to be contracted in a ball. Surface smooth or minutely granular and setigerous. Color yellow or light brown, marked with black spots. Head with front not marginate; lateral angu- lations produced into lobes, which are trun- cate. Epistome forming a triangular shield, ad- vancing some distance beyond the surface of the head. Eyes situated post-laterall}'. Second pair of antenna^, with a five-jointed peduncle and a tiagellum consisting of four joints, extend to the posterior margin of the second thoracic segment. The seven thoracic segments are subequal. The epimera of the first segment are represented by a thickening of the lateral edge, which is incised or cleft posteriorly. The epimera of all the other segments are dorsally separated by distinct suture lines. Antennie interiores uniarticulatpe, immobiles. Fronsab epistomate non discreta; epistomatis scutellum subtetragonem, ante aiigu- statum, reflexum;


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