i8 M. A. Carriker 



put slightly convex ; marginal, antcnnal br.nds, broken at the 

 clypeal suture, run backwards from the sides of the clear oral 

 fossa nearly to the trabeculae, then straight inward to the bases 

 of the posterior roots of the mandibles ; the portion in front of 

 the clypeal suture is clear brown, back of that, brown, with a 

 pitchy stripe along inner portion, and pitchy after leaving the 

 margin ; occipital bands of deep brown, fading outwardly, and 

 not reaching- occipital margin, join the posterior ends of antennal 

 bands : mandibles chestnut ; a smoky brown occipital signature. 



Prothorax small, quadrilateral, with anterior and posterior mar- 

 gins straight, lateral margins convex, and one weak hair in pos- 

 terior angles; pitchy, lateral, submarginal bands, curving part 

 way arovmd on posterior margin, and having a short projection 

 into the anterior angles of the metathorax ; brown coxal bands 

 show through. 



Metathorax larger than prothorax, pentagonal, sides convex 

 and widely diverging, with posterior margin shar]:)ly angulated 

 on abdomen ; a series of six slender hairs on each side of posterior 

 margin; heavy pitchy transverse bands in the region of posterior 

 angles, with a projection into the first segment of abdomen; a 

 narrow, submarginal, chestnut band along posterior margin. Legs 

 short and stout, with pitchy spot at base, and semiannulation at 

 ti]) of femora, and brownish spot at outer side of tip of tibiae. 



A1)donien narrowly oval, with rounded, projecting, posterior 

 angles, furnished with one hair in the third segment, and three in 

 four to eight, with two others in anterior angles and four on 

 posterior margin of eighth ; ninth segment small, indented at tip. 

 with two chestnut blotches in sides ; segments one to eight with 

 narrow, lateral, pitchy bands, separated by clear posterior angles, 

 and projecting slightly into anterior adjacent segments; two me- 

 dian longitudinal rows of deep, smoky brown blotches in anterior 

 portion of segments, with a latero-posterior projection which 

 reaches the lateral margins of abdomen in segments five to eight ; 

 spots joined in the eighth segment and connected in remainder 

 by a pale brown, ventral, transverse band, which is expanded into 

 a continuous pale blotch on segments six to seven. 



Male. — Body, length 1.63 mm., width .57 mm.; head, length 



140 



