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long and 1 mm broad; and the shape of the male genitalia, as 

 shown by Chamberlin's drawing in which the anterior plate and the 

 lateral plate on each side are united instead of two distinct struc- 

 tures as in the other species. 



NANNOLENE MINOR, new species 



Figure 14 



Numerous specimens collected near Bakersfield, Calif., December 

 12, 1927, by Dr. O. F. Cook. The type is a male, U.S.N.M. no. 1307. 



Diagnosis. — This species is closely related to N. hurkei and N. vio- 

 lacea. It differs from both species in the smaller body, usually 

 fewer segments, fewer ocelli, and in the structure of the gonopods. 



Description. — Body slender, 18 to 20 times as long as broad, mod- 

 erately moniliform; length, 11 to 16 mm; number of segments, 40 

 to 47; neck constriction slight, segments 2 to 4 but little narrower 

 than the adjacent segments. 



« b 



KiGURB 14. — Sannolene minor, new speclea : a. Anterior gonopods, anterior view; b, three 

 outer joints of leg 7 of male. 



Color in life whitish, the extremities of the body darker and very 

 faintly maculate with light violet-brown without definite arrange- 

 ment. Each side of body with a series of small, dark spots, the 

 repugnatorial glands, showing through the segments. 



Head not bent under the first segment; surface distinctly reticu- 

 late; vertex with a pronounced median impressed line, from the an- 

 terior end of which, on each side, a finer impressed line curves for- 

 ward and laterad, reaching the upper corner of the eye. Ocelli 12 

 to 18 in three or four series, forming a subtriangular patch close 

 to the margin of segment 1. Antennal sockets distant from the 

 front corners of segment 1. Clypeus with two large setae on each 

 side. Labrum with three teeth; the base crossed by a series of 16 

 setae, those on the sides longer than at the middle. Mandibulary 

 stipes flush with the sides of the head and the first segment, strongly 

 inflated and with a distinct raised margin and a prominent lower 

 corner; surface coarselj^ reticulated. 



