Marine isopods collected in the Philippines by the fisheries steamer Albatross in 1907-08 . ovata Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), v, 1880, p. 464-465, pi. xv, fig. 11-14. Schioedte andMeinert, Nat. Tidsskr. (3), xiv, 1883-84, p. 416-417. Locality: Bubuan Island, southwest side. Parasite on tail of snapper. One specimen, a male, agrees in every respect with Mierss description of thisspecies, except that the body is narrower and the posterolateral angles of the sixthand seventh thoracic segments are more diverging. Mierss specimens were bothfemales. Schicedte and Meinertss specimen from Amb
Marine isopods collected in the Philippines by the fisheries steamer Albatross in 1907-08 . ovata Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), v, 1880, p. 464-465, pi. xv, fig. 11-14. Schioedte andMeinert, Nat. Tidsskr. (3), xiv, 1883-84, p. 416-417. Locality: Bubuan Island, southwest side. Parasite on tail of snapper. One specimen, a male, agrees in every respect with Mierss description of thisspecies, except that the body is narrower and the posterolateral angles of the sixthand seventh thoracic segments are more diverging. Mierss specimens were bothfemales. Schicedte and Meinertss specimen from Amboina was also a female. * Genus CYMOTHOA Fabricius. Cymothoa stromatei Bleeker. Cymothoa stromatei Bleeker, Acta Soc. Scient. Indo-Neerland., n, 1857, p. 35-36, fig. eremita [Bruennich] Schicedte and Meinert, Nat. Tidsskr. (3), xiv, 1883-84, p. 259-266,pi. vii, fig. 3-13. Cymothoa stromatei Lanchester, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1902, vol. 2, pt. 2, p. 377. Localities: Three females and four males were collected at Bubuan Island, male was collected at Nogas Point, MARINE ISOPODS FROM THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 23 A note accompanying seven of the specimens reads: Parasitic in mouths (gillchamber?) of a barracuda-like fish. The male from Nogas Point was taken from theside of a fish (Iniistius). This species has been collected before in the Sea of Batavia, in the Indian andPacific oceans, at Madras, Pulo Penang, Singapore, Java, Bangka, Mabatua, Menado,Bohol, Marineles, Ubay, Legaspi, the Society Islands, and Japan. It has beenfound on the tongue of Apolectus niger, and on Psettodis erumei. Genus LIVONECA propinqua Richardson. Livoneca propinqua Richardson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvn, 1904, p. 37-38; Proc. U. S. , xxxvn, 1909, p. 87. Locality: Station 5111, Sombrero Island, S. 41° E., mi. (13° 45 15 N., 120°46 30 E.), at a depth of 236 fathoms in green mud. Parasite from macrurid. Sta-tion 5409, Capitancillo Light, N. 19° W.
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