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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



[Jan., '12 



markings, the presence of four rows of minutely pustulated 

 hairs on each abdominal segment; and by the markings of 

 the head. The dark abdomen, with still darker transverse 

 blotches, is characteristic of morsitans. The prothorax of the 

 specimen is damaged and can not be fully described. 



Description of male. Length of body 1.60 mm.; width .57 mm.; dark 

 brown in color with well defined darker markings. 



Head, length .37 mm.; width .44 

 mm. ; noticeably broader than 

 long; front broadly and flatly 

 rounded, with short hairs on each 

 side and two longer hairs in front 

 of ocular emargination : temples 

 produced squarely with three long 

 hairs and several shorter ones on 

 outer margin ; occipital margin 

 strongly concave with two pustu- 

 lated hairs near the middle and 

 one on each side of these a little 

 inward from the margin ; ocular 

 emargination broad, not deep, 

 with distinct fringe; eye deeply 

 emarginate ; head brown a little 

 lighter than abdomen; ocular 

 flecks, mandibles and bases of oc- 

 cipital bands piceous. 



Prothorax small, sides rounded; 

 brown with coxae showing 

 through faintly as blotches. Met- 

 athorax about one and one-half 

 times as long as prothorax, sides 



rIG. 3. Lolpoceplialinii morsitans n. sp , 



male, from Tmiga macuiata, Norton almost straight, diverging strongly 

 Sound, Alaska. 



posteriorly; truncate at apex, one 



strong hair at posterior angle and a few hairs on posterior margin ; 

 uniformly brown in color; darker than head; coxae showing through 

 faintly as blotches. Legs concolorous with head, tibiae with small 

 darker spot at apex, femora thick. 



Abdomen ovate, first and penultimate segments approximately equal 

 in width; broadest at segments 3, 4 and 5; each segment with a series 

 of one strong and several finer hairs at the margin, ami four alternat- 

 ing rows of finely pustulated hairs on dorsal surface; color brown 

 with broad darker margin, and each segment with complete darker 



