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.5 mm.; golden brown, with distinct, broad, black, oc- 

 cipital bands with expanded extremities, and dark brown, 

 transverse, abdominal blotches with black lateral ends. 



Head, length .31 mm., width .5 mm.; rather large 

 compared with whole body, just as wide as widest part of 

 abdomen; front broad, flatly rounded, with seven hairs 

 on each side of the median line, four of which are grouped 

 together in front of the ocular emargination ; last segment 

 of antenna broad, with slightly concave terminal margin 

 projecting beyond margin of head; ocular emargination 

 pronounced, the deepest point being acutely angled; an 

 ocular fringe ; swelling rounded temporal margins, with 

 several hairs of different lengths, three being about equal 

 and longest; occipital margin concave, with four hairs; 

 golden brown, with large black subcircular ocular blotches 

 and triangular occipital blotches connected by the broad, 

 paler (reddish brown) occipital bands; the occipital 

 blotches connected by an even, strongly colored, broad, 

 occipital border: clypeus with two blackish brown 

 blotches connected with the ocular blotches and man- 

 dibles by colored areas but little darker than the ground 

 color of head. 



Prothorax short, extending laterally even with the outer 

 margin of the occipital blotches of the head, with a hair 

 and spine in each lateral angle, and eight hairs along the 

 flatly convex posterior margin ; concolorous with ground 

 color of head. Metathorax short, with flatly convex pos- 

 terior margin, bearing a series of short, weak hairs; a 

 transverse chestnut-brown blotch across posterior half of 

 segment, expanding and darker at lateral ends. Legs 

 with distinct dark brown markings. 



Abdomen bluntly elliptical, third segment widest, with 

 segments projecting but little laterally; many short hairs 

 along sides and on dorsal surface; segments 1-8 with 



