520 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



COLPOCEPHALUM. 



Colpocephalum chrysophseum n. sp. (Plate lxxi, fig. i.) 



Found on three out of seven specimens of Samuels' 

 Long Sparrow, Melospiza fasciata samuelis (Palo Alto, 

 California). 



Description of female. Body, length 1.35 mm., width 

 .7 mm.; golden brown with blackish brown bands and 

 margins, and rusty brown transverse blotches. 



Head, length .28 mm., width .5 mm.; broadly para- 

 bolic in front; one short hair on each side of the middle, 

 then a longer one, then a short one, then a very long one, 

 then two longish ones; the palpi project by at least the 

 last two segments; the ocular emargination is distinct but 

 not acute inwardly; the eye is large, emarginate, and 

 with a distinct black fleck; ocular fringe distinct; temples 

 projecting, rounded, rather narrow, with several long hairs 

 of different lengths, of which two are very long and 

 equal; on the occipital margin of the temples another 

 very long hair and two or three shorter ones ; middle part 

 of occipital margin with a few long hairs; head tinged 

 with fuscus with black, curving, broadly linear, ocular 

 blotch and narrow curving transversal black line sub- 

 parallel with frontal margin of clypeus ; occipital and 

 inner bands forming a brownish H in middle of head, the 

 lines being broad and slightly curving; in the anterior 

 part of the H a brown blotch, and a tapering brown 

 triangle projecting backward from the cross bar of the 

 H; four small pale to uncolored circular spots, one at 

 each end of the cross bar of the H, and the two others 

 outside of but contiguous to the anterior legs of the H. 



Prothorax broad, short, with a strong hair in the lateral 

 angles and two spines, and ten longish hairs ranged along 

 the posterior margin; the transverse chitinized bar is 



