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and a fainter narrow diagonal line running inward and 

 backward from each side; the pericoxal and intercoxal 

 lines of presternum showing through; one hair in each 

 posterior angle. Metathorax angulated on abdomen, with 

 a series of pustulated hairs along posterior margin; ante- 

 ro-lateral sides with strong black border; postero-lateral 

 sides with paler, brown, linear, tapering blotch. Legs 

 concolorous with body, with black marginal and annular 

 markings. 



Abdomen very broadly elliptical, suborbicular ; not 

 turbinated; with long weak hairs in posterior angles; last 

 segment flatly rounded behind ; the transverse lateral 

 blotches smoky brown, with darker lateral borders, large 

 uncolored stigmatal spots, and about six demi-pulstulations 

 along the posterior margin of each blotch; some of the 

 outermost of these pustulations are complete; many weak 

 hairs on dorsal surface; genitalia showing distinctly in 

 segments 6-9, broad and shortly three-pronged posteri- 

 orly; segment 8 with transverse blotch entirely across 

 segment; segment 9 uncolored. 



Female. Body, length 2.5 mm., width 1.34 mm.; 

 head, length .72 mm., width .81. ; abdomen more elongate, 

 the lateral transverse blotches a little shorter, the poste- 

 rior margin of the last segment with shallow emargination ; 

 last segment with two short, longitudinal, lateral blotches; 

 a broad semielliptical genital blotch with backward-pro- 

 jecting mesal point showing through from below. 



Docophorus transpositus n. sp. (Plate lxv, fig. 6.) 



A single female from a Cow Bunting, Molothrus ater 

 (Lawrence, Kansas) . This new Docophorus is a member 

 of Piaget's group forficu lati, whose members have been 

 found hitherto only on the Psittacinae. The distinguishing 

 character of the group is the forcipated clypeal front. 



