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one hair in the prominent eye; occipital margin straight; 

 trabecular large; signature colored, posterior margin with 

 darker-colored acuminate point, anterior margin parallel 

 with front margin of clypeus, i. e., emarginate; antennal 

 bands distinctly colored and continued in front of suture, 

 and bending in at posterior ends; behind these bent-in 

 ends a diagonally transverse, uncolored line; occipital 

 bands distinct; temporal margins colored. 



Prothorax small, short, much narrower than the head; 

 angled behind, with a slight, rounding prominence at 

 posterior lateral angles bearing a single hair; colored, 

 paler in the center. Metathorax short, angled behind, 

 with sides produced and obtusely rounded, bearing one 

 long hair; whole segment strongly colored. 



Abdomen broadly elliptical; first segment wholly col- 

 ored, segments 2-7 with a strong lateral blotch, irregu- 

 larly triangular, pointed inwardly, with clear stigmatal 

 spot, with uncolored posterior angles, and with one or two 

 hairs arising from extreme posterior lateral point of colored 

 blotch; eight segment wholly colored; ninth uncolored, 

 rounded, with only very small hairs; central space of 

 abdomen uncolored; a rectangular genital blotch with 

 backward projecting posterior angles showing through on 

 sixth and seventh segments. 



Docophorus fuliginosus n. sp. (Plate iii, fig. 2.) 



A few specimens from a Black-bellied Plover, Chara- 

 drius squatarola (Lawrence, Kansas), and a single male 

 from a specimen of the same bird-species shot near Palo 

 Alto, California. The new species belongs to the group 

 rotundati (with convex or truncate clypeus) of Piaget's 

 super-group latitemporales, which includes the Docophor! 

 of the shore birds. This group closely resembles the 

 group pustulosi of the Terns, and this species from Char a- 



