. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. TSOPODS OF NORTH AMERICA. 615 Esenada, Lower California; Mesilla Park, New Mexico; Phoenix, Arizonii; Las Vegas, New Mexico; Cabanas, Cnl)a; warm spring-, a few miles west of Socorro, New Mexico; Azores; (lalapagos Islands; Alabaster Cave, Eldorado County, California: Alvarez, Mexico, at an altitude of 8,000 feet; Oahu. Hawaiian Islands; Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands; Caracas, Venezuela; world-wide in distribution. This species is said to he injurious to various plants in Fort Worth, Texas; found at roots of sugar beets; under stones; in cellar
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. TSOPODS OF NORTH AMERICA. 615 Esenada, Lower California; Mesilla Park, New Mexico; Phoenix, Arizonii; Las Vegas, New Mexico; Cabanas, Cnl)a; warm spring-, a few miles west of Socorro, New Mexico; Azores; (lalapagos Islands; Alabaster Cave, Eldorado County, California: Alvarez, Mexico, at an altitude of 8,000 feet; Oahu. Hawaiian Islands; Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands; Caracas, Venezuela; world-wide in distribution. This species is said to he injurious to various plants in Fort Worth, Texas; found at roots of sugar beets; under stones; in cellars. It has also been foimd dead near poisoned cotton, showing that it feeds on the growing cotton plants. Body oblong-ovate, almost twice as long as wide, 8 nun. : 15 Fig. 6t)6.—Porcellio ^aft?:r Sars). a. Second antenna, b, Uropod. e. Adult male. d, two of abdomen amd uropods. e, Seventh leg. /, cj, PLEOPODS OF male. Head wider than long, 2 nun. : 8^ mm., with the anterior margin produced in three lobes, the median lobe being triangulate, the lateral lobes rounded and larger than the median lobe. The eyes are small, composite, and situated at the base of the antero-latcral lobes. The tirst pair of antennae are small and inconspicuous, and are composed of two articles. The second pair of antenna^ huve the first article short; the second article is one and a half times longer than the first; the third is as long as the second; the fourth is nt^arly twice as long as the third; the fifth is one and a half times as long as the fourth. The fiagellum of two ai'ticles, the first of which is a little longer. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washingt
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