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with six stiff hairs on cacli roiindin}:^ an<:ular portion 

 of the posterior niar^nn, and tlie median straij;ht 

 portion with an unoolored border and fringe of fine 

 hairs. 



Menopon petulans n. sp. (Phite X'ilJ, i'lis,. o). 



One specimen from a Black-bodied Sliearwater, 

 Fu^^nus grlseufi (l^ay of Monterey, California). Shorter, 

 broader, and darker colored than jHiululuin n. sj). from 

 Piif}inufi opisthoiiielas (same locality). 



Description of male. Body, lentrth 1.34 mm., width 

 .68 mm.; short, broadly elliptical; head with distinct 

 ocular emargination and projecting temples; general 

 color dark fuscous with distinct, large black ocular 

 blotches; transverse abdominal bands fading in their 

 medial portions but distinct laterally. 



Head, length .28 mm., width .53 mm.; front rounded, 

 with a very slight median angulation; a rather long 

 median hair each side of the front angulation; a short 

 marginal })rickle in front of the suture, one rather long 

 marginal hair just back of the suture; two pustulated 

 hairs and one long spine in front of a distinct ocular 

 emargination : eye distinct, filling base of ocular emar- 

 gination with a black ocular fleck; temples rounding, 

 projecting, with three long hairs and several spines; 

 occipital margin concave, with six long hairs antl two 

 spines on the margin; front of the head witii slightly 

 darker brown triangular blotches each side of the pale 

 front; mandibles showing through the head as a dark 

 brown spot; ocular blotch broad and distinctly black, 

 fading gradually along the temporal margin; occij>ital 

 bands faintly showing; occipital blotches distinct, being 

 connected by a narrow black band which fades on the 

 temporal margins. 



