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Colpocephalum snbpustulatum sp. nov. (Fig. 2). 



Female. Body, length 2.05 mm., width .64 mm. ; uniform clear 

 brown throughout, with no large clear areas and few markings much 

 darker than the general color of the body. 



Head, length .20 mm., width .48 mm. ; front flatly rounded, with 

 seven stout hairs between the tips of the projecting palpi; a slight 

 angulation just in front of palpi, between the front and sides of the 

 fore part of the head ; four short hairs between this angulation and 

 the anterior angle of the ocular emargination ; ocular emargination 

 deep, with a fringe of stout hairs along the posterior margin ; temples 

 expanded, with rounded angles in front and rear, between which are 

 four hairs, only one of which is rather long; occipital margin deeply 

 and evenly concave, without hairs ; mandibles small, dark chestnut ; 

 short curving bands of same color from base of mandible to near 

 frontal angulation ; eye prominent, with a large black fleck ; a blotch 

 of dark chestnut brown at inner margin of ocular emargination ; a 

 darker band along occiput, narrower in center. 



Prothorax, .35 mm. in width, hexagonal, with prominent rounded 

 lateral angles, furnished with a spine and one short hair; narrow, 

 complete coxal bands of darker brown showing plainly from under 

 surface. Mesothoracic suture visible on the lateral margins only; 

 metathorax, length .30 mm., width .48 mm. ; quadrilateral, with broadly 

 diverging sides, rather acute, slightly rounded, anterior angles and 

 more broadly rounded posterior angles, with two small spines, pos- 

 terior margin ( ?) transverse ; narrow band of dark brown around 

 frontal margin of mesothorax, curving inward and backward at the 

 lateral suture (coxal bands). 



Abdomen elongate oval, lateral angles scarcely projecting and with 

 but one or two very short, fine hairs ; slightly darker brown lateral 

 bands, inside of which is a narrow, longitudinal clear streak, running 

 the whole length of the abdomen ; transverse bands solid, with 

 scarcely any lighter area at the sutures, each segment with two or 

 three irregular rows of fine short hairs, the median row of which are 

 set in very small clear pustules (not shown in drawing) ; ninth seg- 

 ment largest, slightly clear in anterior portion, with faint, parallel, 

 longitudinal striations along sides ; one short hair on lateral margin. 

 Legs robust, concolorous with body, femora considerably swollen and 

 all segments (especially tarsi) with short stiff hairs along posterior 

 and anterior margins. 



Taken on Cerylc alcyon, the first record for a species of 

 this genus on any member of the family. Osborn has recorded 

 Colpocephalum pustulosum from the kingfisher, but it was 



