Identifier: transactionsproc4119phil (find matches)
Title: Transactions and proceedings and report of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia
Subjects: Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia Science
Publisher: Adelaide : The Society
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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les. Epimeraof sixth segment of peraeon extending to the first third ofthe caudal shield, those of the third pleon segment reachingto the middle of the shield. Uropoda with both branchesnarrow, outer with external margin obscurely serrate, enddentate or crenate, and with one or two hairs, inner brancha little longer and with end less distinctly serrate. In other respects resembling S. minuta. Length, 6 mm. ; breadth, 5 mm. Locality.—Encounter Bay, South Australian coast. I have pleasure in naming this species after Mr. W. H.Baker, F.L.S., Hon. Curator in Crustacea at the South Aus-tralian Museum, who has done so much good work on theCrustacea of South Australia. (h) On Deto marina, Chilton.Figs. 15-21. About two years ago I published a paper (1915) on theterrestrial Isopoda belonging to the genus Deto in which Irecognized the following species:—D. echinata, Guerin, andD. acinosa, Budde-Lund, from Cape Colony; D. armata^Budde-Lund, from St. Paul Island, Indian Ocean; D. marina. 400
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401 Chilton, from Coogee Bay, New South Wales ; D. aucklandiae^G. M. Thomson, from Lord Auckland Islands, New Zealand;and D. hucculenta, Nicolet, from New Zealand and fromValparaiso Bay, South America. The species are all foundon the sea shore at or near high-water mark, and show strik-ing secondary sexual characters which differ considerably inthe different species. At the time of writing the paper I had only the feworiginal specimens of D, marina, of which only one femalewas mature, and the description of this species was thereforesomewhat imperfect. I added to it the remark (1915, p. 445),The adult male is not known; it will be interesting to seein what characters it differs from the female. Some monthsafter the MS. had been despatched to the printer, I receivedfrom Mr. W. H. Baker, of Adelaide, a few specimens of anIsopod that he had collected on the shore of Kangaroo Island,South Australia. On examination these proved to belong toDeto marina, and among them were adult males and f

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