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markings, the presence of four rows of minutely pustulated 
hairs on each abdominal segment; and by the markings of 
the head. The dark abdomen, with still darker transverse 
blotches, is characteristic of morsitans. The prothorax of the 
specimen is damaged and can not be fully described. 
Description of male. Length of body 1.60 mm.; width .57 mm.; dark 
brown in color with well defined darker markings. 
Head, length .37 mm.; width .44 
mm.; noticeably broader than 
long; front broadly and flatly 
rounded, with short hairs on each 
side and two longer hairs in front 
of ocular emargination; temples 
produced squarely with three long 
hairs and several shorter ones on 
outer margin; occipital margin 
strongly concave with two pustu- 
lated hairs near the middle and 
one on each side of these a little 
inward from the margin; ocular 
emargination broad, not deep, 
with distinct fringe; eye deeply 
emarginate: head brown a little 
lighter than abdomen; ocular 
flecks, mandibles and bases of oc- 
cipital bands piceous. 
Prothorax small, sides rounded; 
brown with coxae showing 
through faintly as blotches. Met- 
athorax about one and one-half 
times as long as prothorax, sides 
Fic. 3.—Colpocephalum morsitans n. sp., } : : 
male, from 7ringa maculata, Norton almost straight, diverging strongly 
Sound, Alaska. ‘ 
posteriorly; truncate at apex, one 
strong hair at posterior angle and a few hairs on posterior margin; 
uniformly brown in color; darker than head; coxae showing through 
faintly as blotches. Legs concolorous with head, tibiae with small 
darker spot at apex, femora thick. 
Abdomen ovate, first and penultimate segments approximately equal 
in width; broadest at segments 3, 4 and 5; each segment with a series 
of one strong and several finer hairs at the margin, and four alternat- 
ing rows of finely pustulated hairs on dorsal surface; color brown 
with broad darker margin, and each segment with complete darker 
