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clear golden yellow colour, with a diffuse minium-red pigment on the back, forming<br />

slight ramifications on each side of the segments. Length of adult female 4 mm.<br />

/iVwr/-.s'.-~-This species was established in the year 1879 by Mr. Budde-<br />

Lund from some specimens found in a collection of Trichoniscus pusillus from<br />

the neighbourhood of Copenhagen. The specific name is somewhat inappropriate,<br />

since it is only specimens that have been preserved in alcohol for some time that ex-<br />

hibit a white colour, whereas the animal in a fresh state is distinguished by a very pro-<br />

nounced golden yellow hue, changing to reddish orange. Mr. Budde-Lund has identified<br />

the Trichoniscus Lcydigi of Weber with the present species; but this seems to<br />

me inadmissible, since Dr. Weber expressly indicates the colour of the living ani-<br />

mal to be a pure white, and, moreover, absolutely denies the existence of eyes,<br />

which in the present species are easily observable both in fresh and preserved<br />

specimens. Nor does the habitus figure he gives of his form agree exactly with<br />

the present species, and the detail-figures subsequently given by that author also<br />

exhibit some well-marked differences, while yet showing the 2 species to be very<br />

nearly allied.<br />

Occurrence. I have met with this form in 3 different places in the<br />

neighbourhood of Christiania, but in none of them in any<br />

abundance. In all 3<br />

localities it was found on the lower side of stones deeply imbedded in the soft<br />

ground. Its motions are very slow, and it is thereby markedly distinguished<br />

from the species of the genus Trichoniscus, which are rather active animals. During<br />

its slow creeping it winds its flexible body about in a most peculiar manner, and<br />

may thus at first sight easily be mistaken for a little worm.<br />

Distribution. Denmark.<br />

(itii. a. Haplophthalmus, Schobi, isoo.<br />

Generic (.'hurKt-tcrs. Body oblong, moderately convex, sculptured dorsally with<br />

more or less distinct longitudinal ribs. Cephalon with the front triangularly produced,<br />

though sc.aiv.ely defined from the epistome, lateral lobes rather large. Side-plates of<br />

mesosome lamellarly expanded, discontiguous. Metasome not abruptly contracted<br />

epimeraJ plates of the 2 anterior segments small, those of the 3 succeding ones well de-<br />

veloped, l;iminar; last segment of a similar shape to that in the 2 preceding<br />

genera. Eyes very small, simple,<br />

subdorsal. Antennulaj and antenn;e much as

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