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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



[Jan., 'n 



the lateral margin near the center. On the margin just behind the 

 clypeal suture are three rather long hairs, a short one on the base of 

 the trabeculae and a long one on the margin near the basal segment 

 of the antennae. Temples broadly rounded with three long hairs and 

 three short spines; a hair and one spine arising from the prominent 

 eye. Occiput nearly straight, very slightly sinuous ; the occipital 

 bands are prominent and are prolonged in the antennals. Second seg- 

 ment of antennae nearly as long as the last three; third shortest; sec- 

 ond and third very light in color, the basal and terminal two being 

 somewhat darker. 



Thorax shorter than head and nar- 

 rower; length, .4 mm. Prothorax, a 

 trifle less than half that length; 

 quadrangular with a lateral marginal 

 band which also extends along the 

 posterior margin nearly to the center. 

 Median portion of segment light in 

 color. Metathorax with sides di- 

 verging, posterior angles broadly 

 rounded and posterior margin con- 

 vex ; a row of pustulated hairs ex- 

 tends around from the straight 

 diverging sides half way to the center 

 of the posterior margin. There are 

 two blotches leaving a narrow un- 

 colored line down the center ; darker 

 marginal bands extend from the an- 

 terior angles to the median uncolored 

 FIG. i Docophorus fissi-signatus n. s. 9 line. 



Abdomen elliptical with segments of nearly equal length except the 

 ninth, which is very small and bilobed; color pale except for the 

 dark, sharply denned, triangular transverse blotches on the first seven 

 segments which extend in about two-thirds of the way to the center; 

 These segments also have pitchy lateral bands. A spiracle occurs in 

 a clear space on segments two to seven. The eighth segment is dark 

 in color except along the margin ; two hairs arise near the center of 

 this segment from clear pustules. The last two segments are round- 

 ed, the eighth with straight, almost parallel lateral sides, and a 

 fringe of hairs on the posterior margin. There is a row of hairs 

 across the middle of each of the preceding segments and several in 

 each posterior angle. 



