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Type-Iocality.-Cueva del Ojo de Agua Grande,Cordoba, Veracruz, Mexico.Distribution.-Known only from caves near Cordobaand Orizaba, Veracruz. See Fig. 10.Records.-Veracruz: ?Grutas de Atoyac, Cueva delCarbon, and Cueva del Ojo de Agua Grande.Discussion.-This species was collected from organicdebris and from the vicinity of and in small pools.It is most closely related to B. acostai. The record ofB. villalobosi from Grutas de Atoyac is tentative. Mulaik(1960) originally reported the population fromGrutas de Atoyac as Protrichoniscus bridgesi; this iscertainly a misidentification.Cylindroniscus cavicolus (Mulaik)Antroniscus cavicola Mulaik, 1960:82,117,118-119,fig. 50-64; Nicholas, 1962:171; Schultz, 1970a:407-408.Cylindroniscus cavicolus: Schultz, 1970a:409, 411­412; Reddell, 1971b:23.Type-Iocality.-Gruta del Palmito, Bustamente("'Bustamante), Nuevo Leon, Mexico.Distribution.-Known only from the type-locality.See Fig. 11.Discussion.-The genus Cylindroniscus is a memberof the First Division of the subfamily Trichoniscinae.MEXICOI//), /'v//GUATEMALA_r-,IIIIII ~.: i'.., _1-""'-- ~......./1--,-,-,--, I~ // ......,,! I'1--" \.._, \'-',I'"\Ii..., I/\,/)-----, LI/~,--/.//('\r'Fig. n.-Distribution of troglobitic trichoniscid isopods of the genus Cylindroniscus: 1, Cylindroniscus cavicolus; 2, C.va/lesensis; 3, C. maya.97