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legs and on a line from inner corner of ocular band to occiput. 

 Head, length .25 mm., width .38 mm. ; somewhat flatly parabolic in 

 front, with six short hairs on clypeal margin and with four short and 

 one long hair between palpi and (including) anterior angle of the 

 ocular emargination ; ocular emargination rather deep ; eye large, bi- 

 partite, with a median black fleck, temples expanded, rounded, with 

 two long and ^three shorter hairs; temporal angles slightly rounded; 

 occipital margin regularly concave, with two submarginal hairs ; tips 

 of mandibles dark brown ; pitchy brown bands curve forward from 

 the base of the mandibles to the frontal margin ; narrow, pitchy brown 

 ocular bands extend inward from either angle of the ocular emargi- 

 nation and meeting internally, inclose a V-shaped area, which is darker 

 brown than the remainder of the head ; a darker submarginal band 

 along the occiput, broken medially (probably showing through from 

 thorax), clear lines extend inward and backward from the point of 

 the V-shaped ocular bands to a median point where they join, thence 

 extend backward to occipital margin. 



Prothorax as wide as head at temporal angles (.25 mm.) ; lateral 

 angles produced, bluntly rounded, and with one hair just posterior to 

 the angle ; coxal bands of darker brown, entire, and very plain from 

 above. 



Metathorax quadrangular, sides broadly diverging; mesothoracic 

 suture prominent on margin ; anterior angles acutely rounded, naked, 

 with narrow dark brown marginal and submarginal bands which unite 

 on median anterior margin of segment and at their posterior ends ; a 

 narrow brown band runs backward and inward from the lateral mar- 

 gin across the postero-lateral angles and into the first abdominal seg- 

 ment ; posterior angles acutely rounded, with two spines and one 

 hair; posterior margin of segment convex, without hairs (?). 



Abdomen rather spindle-shaped, slightly constricted at the sixth and 

 seventh segments ; lateral angles not prominent, rounded, with one 

 small spine and one longish hair; posterior margins of segments trans- 

 verse (except seventh and eighth, slightly concaved), with about six 

 longish hairs ; faint, incomplete transverse bands of clear brown ; 

 lateral bands of darker brown, darker near lateral margins of seg- 

 ments, and scarcely separated at the sutures ; the ninth segment the 

 longest, rounded posteriorly, with some short hairs, two long marginal 

 and two long submarginal hairs. Legs long and strong, with espe- 

 cially large tibiae and tarsi ; femora and tibiae with some short hairs. 



Taken on Arenaria interpret. This is apparently not very 

 closely related to any form which I have seen described or 

 figured, the V-shaped ocular bands and spindle-shaped, con- 

 stricted abdomen distinguishing it at once. 



