NEW MAl.l.Ul'lIAliA. G7 



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beneath tlie uncolored medial space and extending 

 laterally not ([uitc to the lateral bands; distinct nar- 

 row blackish bands on the lateral margins; last seg- 

 ment narrowly, angularly emarginate, with a short hair 

 on the posterior margin each side of the emargination, 

 and with pale brown transverse blotches, but no dark 

 bands on lateral margins. 



Docophorus mirus n. sp. (Plate V, fig. 7). ' 



A few specimens from two Vigor's Wrens, Thryotkorus 

 bewickii spilurus (Palo Alto, California). Characterized 

 by the very large head and small abdomen, the head 

 being two-fifths as long as the whole body and almost, 

 if not cjuite, as wide. 



Description of the female. Body, length 1.5 mm., 

 width .65 mm.; head very large in proportion to the 

 body, five-sixths as wide as the abdomen and two-thirds 

 as long. 



Head, length .56 mm., width .53 mm., broadly con- 

 ical; uncolored clypeal front slightly concave in the 

 middle, a rather long stiff dorsal hair rising near the 

 lateral margin and extending forward beyond the mar- 

 gin of the head, a short hair on the margin in front of 

 a distinct suture, two rather long hairs before the tra- 

 beculie which reach as far as the end of the second seg- 

 ment of the antennae; segment 2 of the antenme long, 

 segment 5 longer than either segment 3 or 4; eye dis- 

 tinct, a long hair on the dorsal surface and a shorter 

 hair arising near the posterior angle; three long hairs 

 and a short prickle on the rounding angle of the tem- 

 ples; occipital margin slightly convex; signature dis- 

 tinct, pale fulvous, anterior margin slightly concave; 

 lateral margins straight, though the dark, narrow lines 

 of the inner bands make it appear that there is a strong 



