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verse bands, of dark brown, separated by liroad clear sutures, 

 except between segments five and six. 



Male. — Body, length i.oo mm., width .42 mm.; head, length 

 .37 mm., width .37 mm.; markings same as female; genital hooks 

 short and stout, tip of abdomen clear. 



Numerous individuals of both sexes collected on Menacus can- 

 daei, at Juan Vinas, Costa Rica, March, 1902. A species ren- 

 dered striking by the large head, pale clypeus, and dark brown 

 temples, and narrow lateral bands of abdomen. 



Docophorus underwoodi sp. nov., pi. I, fig. 3 



Female. — Body, length 2.09 mm., width .89 mm. ; clear, with 

 bands and spots of deep, clear brown and pitchy. 



Head, length .70 mm., width .62 mm. ; conical, end of clypeus 

 emarginate, clear, with one hair in rounded angles ; sides con- 

 cave, with a short hair at the suture and two submarginal ones 

 back of suture ; trabeculae large, bent, bluntly pointed and pale 

 brown ; antennae medium, first segment largest, colorless, second 

 a trifle smaller, and last three smaller and subequal, and last four 

 deep brown, with narrow clear bases ; eye large, clear, with a 

 hair; temples evenly rounded, narrowly margined with brown, 

 with two pustulated and two non-pustulated hairs ; occiput con- 

 vex; clear brown antennal bands, broken at the sutures and not 

 reaching clypeal angles ; internal narrow bands of clear brown, 

 following margin of ocular band, running backward half way to 

 the mandibles, then bending inward a short distance, then straight 

 back, and finally spreading out to bases of mandibles ; area be- 

 tween antennal and internal bands a pale brown ; clypeal signature 

 long, narrow, dark at tip, emarginate, wath posterior portion 

 gradually tapering to a point at mandibles ; mandibles large and 

 heavy, chestnut; heavy, pitchy occipital bands running from sides 

 of occiput to bases of antennal bands ; a pitchy ocular band from 

 eye to junction of antennal and occipital bands, a small, dark 

 brown occipital signature. 



Prothorax quadrilateral, with roimded anterior and posterior 

 angles and flatly convex, slightly diverging sides ; dark brown 

 lateral, marginal bands and a pitchy line across postero-lateral 



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