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Sainuel's Song Spari-uw, Milospha fiiftciata fiuinnelis 

 (Palo Alto, California). A short, broad species, with 

 short, wide head, and wide prothorax, ai)proachiiig the 

 Eureum type of Meuopoii (see \). 133 tliis paper). 



Description. Body, lenj^^th 1.37 mm.; width .81 mm.; 

 short, broad; head very short and wide, not of the 

 usual evenly cresceutic type; occipital margin straight 

 and dark; general color dark fuscous, the dark mark- 

 ings of the head making the posterior portion appear 

 quadrangular. 



Head, length .28 mm., width .59 mm.; front broad, 

 flatly rounded; six liairs on the front, one each side of 

 the angulation and three (one long and two shorter) 

 hairs on the lateral margins of the front; two hairs on 

 the angle in front of the ocuhir emargination; hiteral 

 margin of the forehead almost at right angles with the 

 lateral margins of the front; eye large, prominent, with 

 a large black ocular fleck and a short spine; ocular 

 fringe sparsely spined; temples projecting strongly, 

 and narrowly convex, with three long hairs and several 

 shorter hairs and spines: occipital margin straight; a 

 narrow broad submarginal band across the front, its 

 posterior ends bending in so as to leave clear pale 

 brown the anterior portion of the angle in front of the 

 ocular emargination; from this angle a distinct dark 

 fuscous quadrangular blotcli extends back to the occip- 

 ital margin, cutting off the rounding temples which are 

 very pale fuscous; ocular blotches narrow and dark, 

 extending forward along tiie ocular emargination, 

 meetinsi the anterior martrin of the dark fuscous 

 blotch interrupting the arms of the narrow uncolored 

 V-shaped marking, which has its branches rising from 

 the inner angle of the ocular emargination and its ver- 

 tex on the occipital margin; occipital blotches blackish 



