368 CALIFORmA ACADEMY OF SCIEMCES. [Proc. 3D Ser. 



GAMASID^. 



Gamasus calif ornicus n. sp. 



Plate XLI, Figs. 54, 55, and 58. 



Body yellowish, legs paler. Body subpyriform, but contracted slightly 

 twice before the middle, broadly rounded behind, with a rather prominent 

 bristle in front, and dorsum quite thickly clothed with curved hairs. Legs 

 with long hairs and bristles; leg i slender, tarsus i with caroncle and claws 

 rather weak; leg 11 of male heavy, a spur under femur, and a long tooth 

 under tibia, tibia iv with one long spine below. Male mandibles simple. 

 Peritreme nearly straight till in front of coxae 11, where it bends down, and 

 then runs nearly straight forward, slightly upcurved at tip; venter smooth. 



Length ? .8 mm; 3 .6 mm. 



A few specimens, from Claremont (Baker). 

 Laelaps pilosula n. sp. 



Plate XLI, Fig. 49. 



Length i.i mm. Abdomen about twice as long as broad, narrowed at 

 each end, rather broadly rounded in front, blunt pointed behind, broadest 

 beyond middle. Dorsal scutum divided, the anterior part reaching nearly to 

 middle of body, posterior portion semicircular and hardly reaching half way 

 to tip of body. Soft parts of body with many fine hairs, hard parts with 

 scattered, longer hairs, one each side on anterior scutum is much larger than 

 the others; each scutum shows above, sometimes indistinctly a pair of small 

 circular impressions. Venter shows no hard parts; but in front is the curved 

 genital opening, and each side is an oblique dark mark. The legs are short, 

 the first pair about as long as body, with no claws at tip. The epistoma is 

 broad, and pointed in the middle. The peritreme is just behind the third 

 legs, and shows a double line extending forward and upward. 



A few specimens, Santa Rosa Island, July (Eisen). 



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IXODID^. 



Argas miniata Koch. Arch. f. Naturgesch. x, (i), 1844, 

 p. 219. 



Specimens from Lakeside (Baker). 



Ornithodoros megnini Duges. Lsl Naturaleza Mexicana, 

 VI, 1883, p. 196. 



From Mt. Shasta, and Southern California (Curtice). 



