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lono-. 67^ 39' 10" W., on Z. enslferm; lat. 31° 16' N., long. 71° 50' W., 

 on Z. emiferm; 27° 38' N. lat., 76° 23' 24" W. long., on L. enniferus; 

 Bahamas, between Nassau and Andros, on Z. 'ensiferus; off South 

 Carolina, on Z. ensiferus; Bermuda, on Z. ensiferus. 



PROBOPYRUS PALi^MONETICOLA (Packard). 



Bopiims (?) Leidy, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1879, Pt. 2, p. 198.— Haroer, 



Report U. S. Fish Comm., 1880, Pt. 6, p. 312. 

 Bopyrus imlKmonelicola Packard, Zool. for High Schools and Colleges, 1881, p. 289. 

 Bopyrus manhatiensis GisshEn, Scientific American, XLV, Sept. 3, 1881, p. 151. 

 Bopyrus jmlxmoneticola GissLEB, Am. Nat., XVI, 1882, pp. 6-12. 

 Probopyrus palsemoneticola STEBBmG, Hist. Crust., 1893, p. 416. 

 Bopyrus palsemoneticola Richardson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1901, p. 578. 



Locality. — Atlantic City (Leidy), on Palaenionetes 'vulgaris (Say); 



Fig. 4] .—PROBOPYRUS PAL^MONETICOLA. O, DORSAL VIEW OF FEMALE; 6, VENTRAL VIEW OF SAME. X 4- 



from New Hampshire to Florida (Carl Gissler), on P. vulgaris; East 

 Providence, Rhode Island, on P. vulgaris; Acushnet River, Massa- 

 chusetts, on P. vulgai'is; Baldwin Lodge, Mississippi, 

 on Palsemonetessp. ; Lantana, Florida, on Palsemondes. 

 Descrijjtion. — Color of body white, with patches 

 of black on the lateral margins of all the thoracic seg- 

 ments on both sides of the bod3\ Head and abdomen 

 also with a few scattered black mark- 

 ings. Legs of both sides white; patches 

 of black on the ventral side of the 

 lateral mai'gins of both sides of the 

 thorax. Incubatory lamella? with 

 patches of black on all the plates of 

 both sides. 



Head deeply set in thorax; anterior fig. 43.— probopyeus 



, • i , , • • PAL.EMONETICOLA, 



margin straight; posterior margin ^^^^^ ^^^ 



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 



Fig. 42.— PROBOPY- 

 RUS PALiEMONET- 

 ICOLA, LEG OF 

 SIXTH PAIR OF 

 ADULT FEMALE. 



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