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no. 1914. TWO NEW PARASITIC Is\pODS— RICHARDSON. 523 



PROBOPYRUS PANAMENSIS, new species. 



Body of female ovate, somewhat asymmetrical, 10 mm. wide, 12 

 mm. long. Color white witli a few markings of reddish-brown on 

 one side of the thorax. 



Head a little wider than long, 4 mm.: 3 mm. Anterior margin 

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

 immersed in the thorax. Eyes absent. (See fig. 5.) 



Figs. 5-8.— Probopyrus panamensis. 5, Female, x 4-1; 6, Male, X 23; 7, First 



INCUBATORY PLATE OF FEMALE, X 14Jj 8, SIXTH LEG OF FEMALE, X 23. 



First segment of thorax very short in the middle of the dorsal 

 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 subequal. Ovarian bosses 

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

 thirds of the sublateral margin of the first 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, 



