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which is built of carton about the branches of living shrubs, offers 

 available food supply to any Homopteron that might enter or be 

 carried into it. Still the habit can not be very general, for numer- 

 ous nests were examined and no more individuals were found. 



Fustiger haytiana sp. nov. (Figs. 1 and 2.) 



Length, 2.25 mm. Color yellowish brown, the head, antennje and prothorax con- 

 siderably darker than the abdomen. Head a little more than twice as long as 



broad, broadest behind the eyes, from which the 

 sides are nearly straight and slightly converging 

 to occiput; occipital corners angulate, the border 

 deeply concave; sides in front of eyes slightly con- 

 vex, nearly as widely separated at base of clypeus 

 as at eyes, eyes convex, about one sixth as long as 

 head; antennae slightly longer than head, third joint 

 clavate, constricted at basal third, about seven 

 times the length of the second, broadly rounded 

 at apex; head and antennae subopaque, coarsely 

 rugulose-punctate, beset with short yellowish hairs, 

 which are erect on head and at apex of antennae, 

 and semi-recumbent on remainder of antennae. 

 Prothorax as long as head, broadest in front of 

 middle, narrowed anteriorly; sides posterior to the 

 broadest part slightly concave; posterior corners 

 angulate, the border slightly concave; disc with a 

 large shallow, median fossa a little posterior to the 

 middle. Elytra shining, finely, sparsely punctate, 

 with scattered, short, erect hairs; together three 

 fourths as long as broad; anterior border concave; 

 sides rounded, gradually diverging to the posterior 



border; posterior corners rounded. Inner border of each elytron strongly, though 



narrowly margined, with an entire stria approximate 



and parallel to the margin. Abdomen shining, finely 



punctate and with erect hairs; at base a little nar- 

 rower than the elytra; first segment basally very 



deeply impressed transversely and having on either 



side of this depression a large rounded tubercle 



which bears a thin bunch of short, recumbent hairs; 



sides rounded, margined, with strong striae that 



extend from the middle of tubercles to the apical 



corners of first segment. Propygidium about three 



times as broad as long. Legs rather slender; tibiae 



apically as thick as the femora; with suberect hairs. 



Middle femora with a long, curved, blunt process near the base. 



shining, minutely punctate. 



1. Fustiger haytiana 

 nov. 



Fig. 2. Fustiger haytiana 

 sp. nov. above, head 

 from side; below, mid- 

 dle femur. 



Ventral surface 



