NO. 1914. 



TWO NEW PARAfilTIC ISfPODf^—RICHARDi^OX. 



523 



PROBOPYRUS PANAMENSIS. new species. 



Body of female ovuto, somewhat as3inmetrical, 10 mm, wide, 12 

 mm. lon<.c- Color white witli a few marldngs of reddish-browTi on 

 one side of the thorax. 



Head a little wider than lon^', 4 mm.:. 3 mm. Anterior marghi 

 widely rounded; antero-lateral anjijles small, acute. Head deeply 

 immei-setl in the thorax. Ej^es absent. (See fig. 5.) 



Figs. 5-8.— Probopyrus panamen-sis. 5, Female, x 4§; C, Male, x 23; 7, First 



INCUBATORY PLATE OF FEMALE, X Uk', 8, SIXTH LEG OF FEMALE, X 23. 



First segment of thorax very short in the middle of the doi*sal 

 region; second segment twice as long as the first in the middle of 

 the dorsal region; third segment as long as the first and second seg- 

 ments taken together; last four segments subetiual. Ovarian bosses 

 are present on the first four thoracic segments; they occupy two- 

 thirds of the sublateral margin of the fu-st segment, one-half that of 

 the second and third segments, and a little more than half that of the 

 fourth segment. Lateral to the ovarian bosses are the epimera, 



