﻿WORMS COLLECTED AT BEAUFORT, N. C. — PEARSE 33 



LEPOCREAOIUM MICROPOGONI, new species 



FiGUKE 8, c 



Body flat, truncate posteriorly and strongly tapering toward the 

 anterior end; length 0.7 mm., width 0.42 mm.; anterior three-fifths 

 spinulose. Oral sucker larger than ventral sucker (0.1 and 0.08 mm.). 

 Genital pore 0.07 mm. in front of ventral sucker. Testes small (di- 

 ameter, 0.07 mm.) ; behind the middle of the body; the left one a 

 little anterior to the right. Ovary in front of the right testis. Only 

 two large eggs (0.13 by 0.06 mm.) in uterus. Cirrus sac shorter than 

 metraterm. Vitelline glands extend from the posterior margin of 

 the pharynx along the lateral margins and across the posterior end. 

 The excretory bladder forks just behind the ovary and eggs. 



Figure 8. — a, Paramonorcheides bivittelosus Manter; h, Lepocreadium archosargi, new 

 species; c, Lepocreadium micropogoni, new species; d, Lecithochirium microstomum 



Chandler; e, Lecithochirium muraenae Manter. 



X38. 



Host. — Micropogon undvlatus (Linnaeus). 



Tyj)e.—V. S. N. M. Helm. Coll. No. 369T6. 



Occurrence. — A single specimen was taken from the gut of one of 

 three hosts on July 10. 



This species differs from L. archosargi^ just described, and from L. 

 ovaJis Manter (1931) in the shape of the body, the larger eggs, the 

 smaller number of eggs in the uterus, the greater degree of spinosity on 

 the body, and smaller size. 



