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should accompany them. Unfortunately, all of these 

 species are represented by females only. 



Description of female. Body, length 2.06 mm., width 

 .59 mm.; short, broadly elliptical body, with short, 

 broad head, broadly rounded in front; clear fulvous 

 with pale golden brown lateral, transverse abdominal 

 blotches. 



Head, length .53 mm.; width .5 mm.; cordate, cly- 

 peal front broadly rounded, four short marginal hairs 

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

 antennse which are short; segment 2 of the antennae 

 longer than segment, 1, segment 5 longer than seg- 

 ments 3 or 4; the anterior end of segment 3 and seg- 

 ments 4 and 5 pale fulvous, a few short hairs on the seg- 

 ments; eye prominent, a long hair rising from its dorsal 

 surface, and with a conspicuous black fleck; temples 

 convex, with two long hairs and two or three short prick- 

 les; occipital margin slightly concave; autennal bands 

 slightly darker on the posterior tips and continuous 

 as a narrow, even marginal border of pale translucent 

 golden brown on the front; narrow, occipital blotch of 

 pale golden brown, also a temporal border and an 

 occipital band of the same color; mandibles dark chest- 

 nut-brown, showing through the head. 



Prothorax short, lateral margins convex; one hair in 

 the posterior angle; pale fulvous, slightly darker on the 

 lateral margins. Metathorax with sides diverging, pos- 

 terior angles rounding, with a long hair and short 

 prickle; four hairs on the posterior margin in groups 

 of two in small, uncolored pustulations; posterior mar- 

 gin with a slight angle on the abdomen; pale fulvous, 

 slightly darker on the posterior angle; all of the thorax 

 with a more whitish ground color than the head. Ster- 

 nal markings consisting of pale intercoxal lines and a 



