554 BULLETIN 54, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



PROBOPYRUS PANDALICOLA (Packard). 



Bopyrus{l) Leidy, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1879, Pt. 2, p. 198.— Harger, 



Report U. S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, 1880, Pt. 6, p. 312. 

 Bopyrus pandalicoln Packard, Zoology for Students and General Readers, 1S79, 



pp. 308-309. 

 Bopyrus pfdivmoneticola Packard, Zoology for High Schools and Colleges, 1881, 



p. 289. 

 Bopyrus inanliatiensis Gissler, Scientific American, XLV, Sept. 3, 1881, p. 151. 

 Bopyrus palicmoiutlcola Gissler, American Naturalist, XVI, 1882, pp. 6-12. 

 Probopyrus palfemoneticola Giard and Bonnier, Bull. Scient., XIX, 1888, j). 4. — 



Stebbing, Hist. Crust., 1893, p. 416. 

 Bopyrus pahemoneticolo Richardson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1901, ]). 578. 

 Probojyyrus palxmoneticola Bonnier, Travaux de la Station Zool. de Wimereux, 



VIII, 1900, pp. 342-343, pi. xxxi.— Richardson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



XXVII, 1904, p.'ee.— Paulmier, Bull. New York State iNIuseum, 1905, pp. 



185-186. 



Localities. — Atlantic City, on l*alieiii<)itete>< vuhjai'ix Say; from New 

 Hampshire to Florida, on P. ndf/drix' Ea.st Proyidence, Rhode Island, 



h 

 Fig. 699. — Probopyrus pandalicola. a, Dorsal view of female, h. Ventral view of same, x 4. 



on P. nulgarh; Acushnet River, Massachusetts, on P. vulgaris; Bald- 

 win Lodge, Mississippi, on Paliemonetesi sp.; Latana, Florida, on 

 Pali£)Honetes; Brooklyn, New York. 



Description. — Color of body white, with patches of black on the 

 lateral margins of all the thoracic segments on both sides of the body. 

 Head and a])domen also with a few scattered Ijlack markings. Legs 

 of both sides white; patches of black on the ventral side of the lateral 

 margins of })oth sides of the thorax. Inculpatory lamelhv with patches 

 of t)lack on all the plates of both sides. 



Head deeply set in thorax; anterior margin straight; posterior mar- 

 gin rounded. Eyes wanting. Ovarian bosses present on the first four 

 segments of the thorax at the anterior part of the sublateral margin; 

 epimera evident as narrow plates lateral to the ovarian bosses. The 

 epimera occupy the entire lateral margins on the last three segments. 

 The segments of the abdomen are distinct. The tei"minal segment is 

 broad, more or less bilobed. The pleopoda consist of five pairs of 



