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Black, the halteres, apices of first two pairs of femora, broad 

 bases of their tibiae and of the joints of their tarsi, yellowish; hairs 

 and bristles of face, antennae, front and upper part of occiput, 

 black, remaining ones of head and those on the palpi dull whitish; 

 style of antennae nearly one-half as long- as the third antennal 

 joint, hairs and bristles of body and legs whitish, those on the 

 scutellum and along middle of mesonotum black, the latter unusu- 

 ally long and nearly erect; hairs on basal half of abdomen also 

 unusually long; thorax grayish pruinose, mesonotum marked with 

 four blackish vittae, abdomen somewhat polished; wings grayish 

 brown, the base nearly to base of discal cell except in the costal and 

 marginal cells, white, first and fourth posterior cells open; nieso- 

 pleura and hypopleura bare. Length, 22 mm. A male specimen. 

 Claremont, Los Angeles county, California. Type No. 7732, U. S. 

 National Museum. 

 1623 Leptomydas hirtus Coquillet, new species. 



Black, the hind margins of the abdominal segments except two 

 spots on the second, genitalia, venter of abdomen, trochanters, 

 femora, tibiae and tarsi, yellow; scutellum reddish yello^v, halteres 

 yellowish brown; occiput, face and sides of front densely beset 

 with bright yellow hairs; sides of mesonotum densely covered with 

 similar hairs which on the front end extend inward nearly to the 

 middle and then backward almost to a patch of these hairs in front 

 of the scutellum; a patch of similar hairs above the front coxae and 

 a larger one above the hind coxae, also one in front of the halteres; 

 sides of first abdominal segment, basal half of the second, apical 

 two-thirds of the three following, nearly the whole of the sixth and 

 the whole of the seventh densely beset with hairs of the same bright 

 yellow color; wings hyaline, base of second submarginal cell devoid 

 of a stump of a vein, first posterior ceil closed; lamellae of antennae 

 unusually broad, obovate, less than twice as long as wide, probos- 

 cis nearly reaches apex of the third antennal joint. Length 11 mm. 

 A male speciriien. Claremont, Los Angeles county, California. 

 Type No. 7731. U. S. N. M. 

 Leptomydas concinnus Coquillet, new species. 



A second species which also occurs in Los Angeles county, Cal. 

 is remarkably like hirtus but the lamellae of the antennae are 

 chiefly orantje-yellow and over twice as long as wide, and the scutel- 

 lum is black. The abdomen of the female has yellow hairs on the 

 first two segments only. 



TWO NEW SIPHONAPTERA. 



BY C. F. BAKEK. 



Anomiopsyllus Californicus n. sp. 



The second species of this very interesting- genus has 

 been found at Claremont, Los Ang-eles County, California, 

 on Spilogale phenax. It agrees with nudatus in all generic 



