Marine isopods collected in the Philippines by the fisheries steamer Albatross in 1907-08 . l process, in the less pronouncedteeth at the base of this process, in the shorter proc-esses on the posterior margin of the seventh abdominal segment,which are only slightly indicated, and in not having the first ab-dominal segment triangularly produced in themiddle and terminating in a tubercle. Five specimens, two females and three males,were collected by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheriessteamer Albatross at Mororan, Japan, on theshore. The female of this species is similar to Sphce-roma aspera Haswe
Marine isopods collected in the Philippines by the fisheries steamer Albatross in 1907-08 . l process, in the less pronouncedteeth at the base of this process, in the shorter proc-esses on the posterior margin of the seventh abdominal segment,which are only slightly indicated, and in not having the first ab-dominal segment triangularly produced in themiddle and terminating in a tubercle. Five specimens, two females and three males,were collected by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheriessteamer Albatross at Mororan, Japan, on theshore. The female of this species is similar to Sphce-roma aspera Haswella from Port Jackson, Aus-tralia, but differs in having three tubercles in atransverse line about the middle of the terminalsegment, in lacking the prominent tubercle onthe posterior margin on either side of the middleline of the first segment of the abdomen, andin not having the last abdominal segment ornamented with twoslightly convergent irregular rows of minute —Cat. No. 39506, Fig. 19.—II o l o - TELSON TUBERCU- l a t u s . Abdo-men or Fig. 20.—Holotel-son pleopod op MALE. X 15g. aProc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 5, 1881, p. 472, pi. 16, fig. 3. Thespecies described by Haswell is probably a Cymodoce, the specimen obtainedbeing the female. no. 1701. NORTHWEST PACIFIC IS0P0D8—RICHARDS0N. 95 Family LIMNORIA Leach. LIMNORIA JAPONICA, new species. Body oblong-ovate, 2 mm.: 5 mm. Color of body, in alcohol, yellow,with the fifth, sixth and seventh segments of the thorax reddishbrown. Head three times wider than long (J mm. : mm.). Front witha rounded excavation. Eyes large, round, composite, and situatedclose to the lateral margin. The head is very bulbous, and from theanterior margin projects upward to form a large rounded first pair of antennae are composed of four articles; the first twoare subequal; the third is a little longer than either of the preceding;the fo
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