Dee INSECTS AFFECTING DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
Approaches communis type in some respects, but differs, I think, 
from any variety of communis in approximation of bands on abdomen 
and uniform brown color of ventral sur- 
face of abdomen and size of legs. 
Docophorus coccygi n. sp. 
Head large, in male nearly as large as abdo- 
men, bright ferruginous; abdomen whitish, ex- 
cept in center and corneous portions, which are 
dark, almost blackish, and give abdomen a 
bluish-black cast. . 
Length, 2.5 mm. 
Head large, triangular; clypeus broad, emar- 
ginate in front between produced chitinous rods 
and with transparent expansion laterally, bear- 
ing three long hairs each side, a depressed exca- 
vation above, but with signature inconspicuous; 
trabeculie rather small, bluntly curved toward 
apex in front, point acutely angled; antennz 
slender; eyes not conspicuous; temporal lobes 
regularly rounded; hind border of head nearly 
straight, very slightly concave; prothorax quad- 
rate, slightly widening behind ; metathorax wid- 
ened behind, posterior border regularly curved. 
A transverse band behind the middle faint in 
Hie a." Wacodhorus coceyys enlaceed front, distinct behind, and with its hind border 
(original). incised by cireular spots, from which originate 
a series of hairs. 
Abdomen short, broad, scarcely wider than head, mostly covered with dark fascie, 
but the membranous portions whitish. Female be- 
neath, with brown fasciz or circular spots forming a 
series around border, a pair on sixth segment extend- 
ing farthest into disk, and on eighth segment nearly 
meeting on median line with denticulated border. 
Male with a broad median ventral stripe running from 
disk to margin of terminal segment, and with broad 
lateral fascia on the discal segments. 
On yellow-billed cuckoo, Lincoln, Nebr., col- 
lected by Lawrence Bruner. Differs from D. 
latifrons in having narrowed clypeus and in 
markings of ventral surface of abdomen. 
Docophorus speotyti n. sp. 
Head longer than broad, or in female almost as wide 
as long, tapering with a little concavity to front, mar- 
gin of clypeus in front truncate or slightly convex of 
medium width; signature long, acute, but not deeply 
colored; trabecule short, acutely pointed, very slightly 
swollen at base; antenne slender, joints 1 and 2 equal, 
each nearly twice as long as 3, 4, or 5, the latter equal Fid. 144. Dobiphorie eae . 
in length; temporal lobes narrow. , enlarged (orisialys 
Body rather slender; prothorax quadrate ; meso-meta- 
thorax wider than basal segment of abdomen. Abdomen narrow in male, almost 
parallel; in female widening to-fifth segment, clothed with long hairs and with 
dorsal fascix, rather short in female, longer in male; color, light brown. 
Length, male, 1.70 mm.; female, 2 mm. 
