. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. searle: isopoda. 367 ARMADTLLIDTDAE. Armadillidium vulgare (Latreille). Armadillo vulgare Latreille, Hist. nat. crust, et insectes, 1804, 7, p. 48; Richardson, Bull. 54, U. S. N. M., 1905, p. 666-668. Locality.— Easter Island, under rocks. Thirty-one specimens. Cubaris murina Brandt. Cubaris murina Brandt, Bull. Soc. imp. nat. Moscow, , 6, p. 28. Cubaris tnurinus Richardson, Bull. 54, U. S. N. M., 1905, p. 645-647. Localities.— Tahiti, one specimen; Nuka Hiva, in dry places under stones, thirty-nine specimens. Sp


. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. searle: isopoda. 367 ARMADTLLIDTDAE. Armadillidium vulgare (Latreille). Armadillo vulgare Latreille, Hist. nat. crust, et insectes, 1804, 7, p. 48; Richardson, Bull. 54, U. S. N. M., 1905, p. 666-668. Locality.— Easter Island, under rocks. Thirty-one specimens. Cubaris murina Brandt. Cubaris murina Brandt, Bull. Soc. imp. nat. Moscow, , 6, p. 28. Cubaris tnurinus Richardson, Bull. 54, U. S. N. M., 1905, p. 645-647. Localities.— Tahiti, one specimen; Nuka Hiva, in dry places under stones, thirty-nine specimens. Spherillo testudinalis Budde-Lund.^ Armadillo testudinalis Budde-Lund, Crust. Isop. Tei'restria, 1885, p. 29. Spherillo testudinalis Budde-Lund, Voeltzkow's Reise in Ostafrica, 1903-1905, 1908, 2, p. 269-270, pi. 12, fig. 17-29. Body ovate, convex, smooth, contractile into a ball. Head about four times wider than long, with the frontal margin straight. Eyes large, composite, composed of eighteen ocelli and placed close to the lateral margins of the head. Prosepistoma plain. First pair of antennae rudimentary, composed of three minute articles. Second pair of antennae with the first article short; the second article is about three times longer than the first; the third article is about as long as the second; the fourth is about equal in length to the third; the fifth is one and a half times longer than the fourth. The flagellum is composed of two articles, the second being three times longer than the first. The antennae are geniculate at the articulation of the second ' ^'^- ^^' Spheniio , , . , . , ,^, . , , i> 1 f> testudinalis. Second and third articles. Ihe inner lobe or the nrst antenna. 4i. x maxillae is furnished with two plumose processes. The first segment of the thorax is tlie longest and is about twice as long as the head. Coxopodites present and visible on the dorsal side i Budde-Lund places this genus in a sul)fiiniil.\, Spherilloninac, of tlu' P


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