Marine isopods collected in the Philippines by the fisheries steamer Albatross in 1907-08 . 6 MARINE ISOPODS FROM THE PHILIPPINE The female differs from the male in not having conspicuously produced epimeraand in not having the segments of the thorax and abdomen fringed with hairs. Three specimens, two males and one female, were collected at station 5664, Macas-sar Strait, Kapoposang Light, at a depth of 400 fathoms. Type specimen, cataloguenumber 41022, United States National excisa, sp. nov. Body ovate, about twice as long as wide, 4 mm.: mm. Surface smooth.
Marine isopods collected in the Philippines by the fisheries steamer Albatross in 1907-08 . 6 MARINE ISOPODS FROM THE PHILIPPINE The female differs from the male in not having conspicuously produced epimeraand in not having the segments of the thorax and abdomen fringed with hairs. Three specimens, two males and one female, were collected at station 5664, Macas-sar Strait, Kapoposang Light, at a depth of 400 fathoms. Type specimen, cataloguenumber 41022, United States National excisa, sp. nov. Body ovate, about twice as long as wide, 4 mm.: mm. Surface smooth. Coloryellow, marked with numerous black arborescent marks. Head wider than long, 1 mm.: 2 mm., with the anterior margin rounded and pro-duced in a small median point. Eyes small, black, composite, round, mm.: , separated by a distance of 1 mm. and situated in the lateral angles. The firstpair of antennae have the first two articles of the peduncleshort and subequal; the third article is as long as the firsttwo taken together. The flagellum, composed of sixteenarticles, extends a little beyond the peduncle of the secondantenna
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