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Phlegmacera occidentalis I'.ks. 

 This is pale in color, with a large brown spot on the cephalothorax and 

 over the base of the abdomen ; legs are lirownish, with white marks on base and 

 tip of femora, tips of patcll;c and tibia?, and fainter ones on metatarsi and 

 tarsi. There is a pair of erect spines on base of abdomen, and in the male 

 the liasal joint of the mandibles is prolonged upward. From Santa Clara 

 County, Calif., and also Washington. 



Nemastoma 



One species of these tiny Phalangids occurs in California; tlic palpi arc 

 slender throughout. 



Flgiire 149. Taracus pallipes. 



Nemastoma modesta Bks. 

 Dorsum brown to red-brown ; legs pale. From the broad, low eye-tubercle 

 there extends obliquely backward a row of tubercles with flat tops broader 

 than the base, on the base of abdomen is a transverse row connecting the 

 rows from the eye-tubercle ; on dorsum of abdomen are four small submedian 

 white spines or processes ; legs and palpi finely hairy. Mt. Shasta. Claremont. 

 and Santa Clara County. 



Ortholasma 



Two species are found in California : 

 1. Process of eye-tubercle with six or more openings each side; femora 



and tibiae not banded rugosa. 



Process of eye-tubercle with about 4 or 5 openings each side ; 

 femora and tibiae banded pictipcs. 



Ortholasma pictipes n. sp. 



Body brownish, a faint median pale stripe on abdomen ; the process of 

 eye-tubercle whitish; legs dark, two bands on femora and tibiae (except leg 

 II), one near middle, one near tip; leg II with band on femora toward tip. 

 tibia mostly pale ; eye-tuliercle with only four or five openings each side, and 

 the spikes projecting beyond the connecting rim ; two spine-like processes each 

 side on front of cephalothorax ; cephalothorax roughened mostly in two curved 



