10 ]\I. A. Carrikcr 



variety of hosts (see host Hst). I have made no attempt to sep- 

 arate them into varieties from lack of time and material, much 

 as they need it. As, Mr. Kellogg' says, this group needs revision 

 badly, but it is a difficult undertaking, with much time and 

 material as a requisite. 



« 

 Docophorus cancellosus sp. nov., pi. I, fig. 4 



Female. — Body, length 2.51 mm., width .83 mm.; head and 

 thorax translucent, smoky brown ; abdomen clear, with pitchy 

 lateral, and deep brown, transverse bands ; head conical with 

 narrow emarginate clypeus, and sc[uarish temples. 



Head, length .74 mm., width .66 mm. ; conical from trabeculae 

 forward, with sinuate sides and narrow emarginate front ; two 

 short fine hairs before trabeculae, which are of medium size, 

 bluntly pointed and golden brown ; antennae rather small, first 

 joint thickest, second joint longest, last three shortest and sub- 

 equal, all uniformly golden brown ; eye large, clear, prominent, 

 with a short hair in the middle and one at posterior margin ; 

 temples squarish, with rounded angles, furnished with several 

 short hairs ; occiput slightly concavo-convex ; heavy, deep brown 

 antennal bands, widening and darkening to pitchy at bases, which 

 bend inward almost to bases of mandibles ; paler brown bands 

 inside of antennal bands ; clypeal signature very indistinct ; man- 

 dible very heavy, chestnut ; temples narrowly edged with pitchy 

 brown and whole templar regions deep smoky brown inward to^ 

 the broken, occipital bands, which do not reach the occipital mar- 

 gin; short faint ocular bands running inward from eyes to 

 occipital bands ; a small, brown, occipital signature. 



Prothorax small, quadrilateral, narrowed in front, with con- 

 cave interior margin, convex diverging sides, and concave pos- 

 terior margin ; posterior angles roundefl, with a short hair ; deep 

 brown, lateral bands, curving around on posterior portion of seg- 

 ment ; prominent brownish coxal bands ; metathorax larger than 

 prothorax, with convex, diverging sides and angulated posterior 

 margin ; posterior angles with one hair, and posterior margin 

 with five hairs on each side, three near the angles and two farther 

 in; broad lateral bands of brown and a broad, pale brown, trans- 

 verse band in median portion ; coxal bands prominent. Legs 



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