Marine isopods collected in the Philippines by the U.S fisheries steamer Albatross in 1907-08 . nly one specimen, a female, was collected, at station 5268, Matocot Point, S. 50° E.,5.80 mi. (13° 42/ 00 N., 120° 57 15 E.), at a depth of 170 fathoms, in sand andpebbles. The type is in the United States National Museum, catalogue number40917. A number of young Cymothoidx are from the following localities: Romblon, Bongao,Bongao Islands; San Miguel Harbor, Ticao Island; Tomindao Island; Busin Harbor,Burias Island; Panabutan Bay, Mindanao; Port Binanga; Nasugbu, Luzon; andstation 5128, Nogas Island

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Marine isopods collected in the Philippines by the U.S fisheries steamer Albatross in 1907-08 . nly one specimen, a female, was collected, at station 5268, Matocot Point, S. 50° E., 5.80 mi. (13° 42/ 00 N., 120° 57 15 E.), at a depth of 170 fathoms, in sand andpebbles. The type is in the United States National Museum, catalogue number40917. A number of young Cymothoidx are from the following localities: Romblon, Bongao, Bongao Islands; San Miguel Harbor, Ticao Island; Tomindao Island; Busin Harbor, Burias Island; Panabutan Bay, Mindanao; Port Binanga; Nasugbu, Luzon; andstation 5128, Nogas Island (W.) N. 6° E., 32.50 mi. (9° 52/ 10 N., 121° 49 35 E.);Varadero Bay, Mindoro; Port Matoloi, Luzon; Batanavan Island; Endeavor Strait;Sablayan Bay, Mindoro; Mansalay, Mindoro. Family SPH^EROMIM.Genus CYMODOCE Leach. Cymodoce longistylis Miers. Cymodocca longistylis Miers, Zool. Coll. of the Alert, 1884, p. 305-306, pi. xxxin, fig. c. Locality: One specimen, a male, from Tomindao Island anchorage, electric light.Mierss specimens were from Thursday Island, Torres Straits, and Singapore.. a b c d Pig. 26.—Cymodoce multidens. a, Male, X9|; b, female, X14£; c, maxilliped, X27i; d, first antenna, X27J. Cymodoce multidens, sp. nov. This species is very close to Cymodoce tuberculosa Stebbing, « but differs in having theanterior margin of the head produced in one small median point instead of two; inhaving the first article of the first pair of antenna? furnished with a row of nine teethinstead of five and an additional tooth just anterior to the row, situated at the proximalextremity of the joint; in having one tooth on the second article of the first antennae;in not having the first abdominal segment produced backward in two prominentposterior projections, & but in having a small tubercle on either side with anotherjust above it. Further comparisons of the two species are impossible, because the descriptions ofStebbing, Whitelegge, and Baker differ. Stebbing says the anterior