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[Turtiir orientalis), shot at Morioka, Prov. Rikuchù, July 15, 1916. This 

 new species belongs to the group clypeati sutura indistincta, and resembles 

 Paine's L. baadoides" from the mourning dove, Zènaidura macroura , but 

 differs from it in size, chaetotaxy, shape of temples, etc. 



Description of the female: — Body 1.63 mm. long, 0.39 mm. wide ; 

 ground colour of body pale brownish, with brownish markings on head and 

 thorax ; lateral bands of abdomen reddish brown. 



Head 0.43 mm. long ; 0.27 mm. 

 wide ; widest through eyes ; head in 

 front of antennae triangular, longer 

 than the parts behind antennae, 

 which parts are of a quadrangular 

 shape ; clypeus rounded, expanded, 

 with a pair of long and another pair 

 of short davate appendages on the 

 frontal part ; marginal hairs five on 

 each side, two of them standing at the 

 clypeal suture and the rest in front 

 of trabecular ; four dorsal hairs on 

 clypeus ; trabecular large, conical ; 

 antennae long, the first segment 

 thick and as long as the third seg- 

 ment, the second longest, the last 

 coming next in length, and the 

 fourth shortest ; eye angular with a 

 very fine hair ; temporal margin 

 straight, somewhat converging 

 posteriorly ; two very small 

 prickles on each temporal angle ; 

 occipital margin slightly concave. 



F 'g- 3- 



Lipeitrus turluris n. sp. Female. X6o. 



* Paine, Report Laguna Mar. Lab. I, 1912, p. 174, Fig. 95. 



