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alt. 11,500 ft., Kings River Caiion, California). This 

 Nirmoid form does not much resemble any other Doco- 

 phorus known to us. The strangely emarginated, trans- 

 verse abdominal blotches are unique. 



Description of the female. Body, length 1.65 mm., 

 width .53 mm., slender, Nirmoid in form, with head 

 wider than thorax and almost as wide as abdomen; 

 abdomen yellowish white, with narrow blackish lateral 

 bands, and transverse bands with their anterior mar- 

 gins widely and irregularly emarginated. 



Head, length .46mm., width .43 mm.; clypeus broad, 

 with straight or very slightly concave front; one short 

 hair in the lateral margin near the front, a second longer 

 hair in front of the suture; eye with a long hair; tem- 

 ples flatly rounding, with two very long hairs and two 

 or three prickles; markings indistinct; antennal bands 

 interrupted at the suture; occipital bands widely sepa- 

 rated posteriorly but converging rapidly anteriorly, 

 forming a triangle with the mandibles at apex; trabec- 

 ulse slender, short. 



Prothorax narrow, quadrangular, with a long hair in 

 the posterior angle; pale medially, with distinct dark 

 lateral bands. Metathorax with a series of long hairs 

 along the posterior margin which is distinctly angu- 

 lated on the abdomen; lateral, dark brown borders. 



Abdomen slender, elongate-elliptical; from one to 

 three long hairs in the posterior angles of the segments 

 and a dorsal, transverse series of long pustulated hairs 

 on each segment rising near the middle of the seg- 

 ments; segments with median blotches which are 

 widely and irregularly emarginate anteriorly, the 

 blotches also interrupted by the pustulations which 

 fade into the medial emargination; the transverse 

 blotches distinctly darker on the posterior margin just 



