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Ooniodes longipes Piag. 



i'iaget, Lcs PedicuUncs, p. 253, pi. XX, fig. 7. 



A single female specimen of a Coniodcs was collected on Odoii- 

 tophorus giittatiis, volcano Irazu, Costa Rica, April, 1902, in 

 company with several individuals of an undescribed species of 

 the same genus. There can be no doubt about its being this 

 form, for it agrees exactly with Piaget's description and plale, 

 although the specimens from which he described it were taken 

 on quite a dift'erent host. 



Laemobothrium delogramma sp. nov., pi. IV, fig. (3 



Female, — Body, length 10.00 mm., width 2.65 mm. ; deep 

 smoky brown, with pitchy markings on head and thorax, pitchy 

 edgings on legs and pitchy' lateral bands on abdomen ; abdomen 

 with a series of dorsal hairs on each segment arising from clear 

 pustules. 



Head, length 1.84 mm., width -1.65 mm.; slightly conical, trun- 

 cate clypeus and sides straight, interrupted by the antennal swell- 

 ings; palpi projecting by last two segments; temple produced 

 to a blunt point posteriorly; occiput transverse with numerous 

 short bristle-like hairs, two larger ones at the angles; four long 

 and numerous short hairs on the surface of the antennal swell- 

 ings ; one hair at the eye ; a fringe of short hairs on the sides of 

 the temples; temples with three rather long hairs, two of which 

 are pustulated, and several short ones ; a pitchy brown blotch 

 running back from the angles of clypeus to the antennal swelling 

 and half way around its inner border; a second band curving 

 inward and backward from the posterior portion of the antennal 

 swelling, to the occipital margin ; antennal swellings obscured 

 with brown ; mandibles large, tipped with black, temples mar- 

 gined with deep brown; a medium oval ventral spot of brow^n, 

 the unmarked portion of the head clear, pale brown. 



Prothorax shield-shaped, with prominent lateral angles, antero- 

 lateral portion emarginate, and postero-lateral margin slightly 

 angulated in median portion ; anterior margin truncate ; lateral 

 angles with a long hair and several short bristles ; sides with 

 numerous short hairs; a pitchy spot in anterior angles, from 



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