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tliau to third row; the autcrior row is curverl, the top of laterals 

 being even with top of median eyes, the latter are very large, 

 close together and close to the anterior margin, so that the clypeus 

 is extremely narrow. The mandibles are small and vertical; leg I 

 much thickened, tibia and metatarsus T with two pairs of spines 

 below; tibia III with a spine near base below, and a pair at tip; 

 tibia IV with one at tip; metatarsi III and IV with several spines 

 grouped at tip. Anterior coxjb separated by more than Avidth of 

 lip, hind coxje nearly touching, the sternum much longer than 

 broad. Abdomen about once and two-thirds as long as broad. 

 The tibia of male palpus has a stout curved hook on outer tip; the 

 palpal organ is tipped with three short black stylets, all of them 

 only visible directly from below. 



Length c? 3.8 mm. 



One male from Beulah, 8,000 feet (Cockerell). 



Icius peckhamae Cockerell. 



Ictus peckhaina; Cockerell, Can. Entom., 1897, p. 233. 

 Several specimens from Mesilla Park. It is often found on fruit 

 trees in the orchards. 



Icius similis Banks. 



Icius similis Banks, Can. Entom., 1895, p. 100. 



^ Some immature examples from under bauds on apple and pear 

 trees, Mesilla Park (Cockerell). 



Icius piraticus IVckbam. 



Icius piraticus Peckham, Trans. Wise. Acad., VII, p. 49 (1888). 



One male from San Augustine (Cockerell). 

 Fuentes vittata n- sp. 



Cephalothorax blackish in eye-region and on sides, red-brown in 

 thoracic part; sparsely clothed with white hair, and longer black 

 ones; clypeus densely clothed with hair; many long black hairs 

 above first row of eyes ; dorsum of abdomen brown, rather 

 mottled, with a whitish tapering stripe from base to tip, its sides 

 ragged but distinct; on lower posterior sides a few pale oblique 

 spots; venter pale brown; mandibles and sternum red-brown; leg 

 I mostly red-ljrown, metatarsi and tarsi paler, other legs pale 

 yellowish, all banded, especially above with blackish; these bands 

 principally at tips of femora, middle of patellre, base and middle 

 of tibiaj and base and tip of metatarsi. Cephalothorax rather 



