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Show 392 M. A. DOLLFUS ON WEST-INDIAN [Mar. 3, 4. A R M A D I L L O CINCTUS, n. sp. Body moderately convex, rather wide, depressed on the fore and hind parts of the segments, with a transverse range of tubercles on each segment. Cephalon: prosepistoma nearly plain, fore edge straight. Eyes middling; ocelli about 16. Antennae: first joint of the flagellum twice as short as the second. Pereion: first segment with a double antero-median tubercle; lateral edges raised; coxopodite distinct and divergent on the third hind part of the edge (underside). Coxopodite of the second segment forming a narrow, quadrangular processus. Pleon, telson: pleotelson as long as wide, with a triangular tubercle near its basis; sides curved; apex one-fourth narrower than the basis. Uropoda: basis nearly straight; endopodite very small, extending hardly to one-sixth the length of the pleotelson; exopodite minute, placed above the middle of the internal edge of the basis (upperside). Colour : dark grey, with small lighter lineolae on both sides of the median line (pereion), and three light dots on the pleotelson. Dimensions : 1\ x 3 | millim. Hab. Near Layon (leeward side). On rotten wood, dry forest, 500 feet, October 4. 5. ARMADILLO GRENADENSIS. Armadillo grenadensis, Budde-Lund, Entomol. Meddelel. 1893, p. 115. Body much convex, nearly smooth. Cephalon : prosepistoma slightly convex, fore edge feebly arched in the middle. , Eyes rather large; ocelli about 16. Antenna short; first joint of the |