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PERISCYPHOPS BREVICAUDATUS, sp. nov. 



Body ovate, convex, contractile into a ball. Surface smooth, 

 punctate, and with a small, pearliform granulation on each side of 

 the thoracic segments. Color, dark brown, with a few light spots 

 longitudinally arranged in the median band of dark brown and with 

 wavy lines of light yellow on either side of the median line. The 



Fig. 80. — Periscyphops brevicaudatus, sp. nov. General figure. X 3 1/5. 



Fig. 81. — Periscyphops brevicaudatus, sp. nov. 



segment (dorsal view). 

 Fig. 82. — Periscyphops brevicaudatus, sp. nov. 



segment (lateral view). 

 Fig. 83. — Periscyphops brevicaudatus, sp. nov. 



segment (ventral view). 

 Fig. 84 — Periscyphops brevicaudatus, sp. nov. 



Coxopodite of first thoracic 

 X 7. 



Coxopodite of first thoracic 

 X 7. 



Coxopodite of first thoracic 

 X 7- 

 Last three segments of abdo- 



men with uropoda. X 7. 



pearliform granulations are yellow and also the fifth article of the 

 peduncle and the flagellum of the antennae. 



Head wider than long, 3 mm. : 9 mm., with the front slightly 

 produced in the middle, sinuate. Front not margined, but con- 

 tinuous with the epistome, which is produced in a slightly convex 

 tubercle. Eyes small, composite, and situated at the lateral margins. 

 The first pair of antennae are small and inconspicuous. The second 

 pair have the first article short ; the second is nearly twice as long 



