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Pellenes tarsalis Batiks. Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. 1904, 

 p. 118. 



One male from San Pedro (Cockerell). 



Pellenes californicus Banks. Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. 1904, 

 p. 117. 



One male from San Diego. 



Pellenes pacifica n. sp. 



Plate XXXIX, Fig. 37. 



Length $, 4 mm. Cephalothorax dark red-brown, with black hairs, a 

 long black fringe over the first eye-row; clypeus snow-white, with white scale- 

 like hairs and longer fine white hairs; palpi mottled; sternum pale, darker on 

 the sides; legs reddish-brown on basal joints, much paler on apical joints; 

 abdomen black, with black hairs, an oblong, oblique white spot on each side 

 near the middle, and behind on the median line is a small white spot, fol- 

 lowed by two still smaller ones; venter pale. Of the usual structure; first 

 pair of legs not much stouter than the others; leg in a little longer than leg 

 IV, the patella simple. The male palpus short, the palpal organ flat and 

 broad, with two elevated humps when seen in side view, both of the black 

 projections on the inner side and starting near base, curving upward. 



One male from San Francisco, July (Fuchs), known by 

 the general black color, simple patella, white clypeus, and 

 shape of the male palpus. 



Pellenes speciosa n. sp. 



Plate XL, Fig. 39. 



Cephalothorax black, sparsely clothed with white and gray hair, a dark 

 gray tuft at each anterior corner, which overlaps the heavy cream-white crest 

 of hair over the eyes, the latter surrounds the eyes of the first row, the narrow 

 clypeus is snow-white; the base of mandibles scarlet, with two black spots, 

 apex yellowish; sternum and coxse yellowish, with long white hair; legs 

 mostly brown, the metatarsi and tarsi yellowish, mostly clothed with appressed 

 white and erect black hair; leg i, however, has a dense brush of long bright 

 red hair under apex of femora, whole of patella, and base of tibia, this when 

 leg is flexed projects out each side; the tibials yellowish, and has a black 

 stripe on each upper side, but without long hair, the metatarsi yellowish, the 

 tarsi jet black on apical half, basal part yellowish; the male palpus has black 

 and white hair, but the tarsus is outside clothed with long bright red hair; 

 venter pale, with three black stripes; dorsum (partly broken) is black, and 

 clothed with white scales on base, and two oblique white bands each side. 



