48 SJOSTEDTS KILIMANDJARO-MERtr EXPEDITION. 15: 4. 



or less distinct stem or pedicel; last segment with narrow truncate posterior margin, 

 bearing several short, separated spiny hairs. 



Female, lengtli 2.4 mm., width 0.67 mm., thus a little longer, and with body 

 twice as wide as male; head also wider and heavier; abdomen not siib-parallel-sided 

 but elongate elliptical and with broad terminal segment with flatly roimded posterior 

 margin; whole body strongly colored, the abdomen with large lateral transversa blot- 

 ches, and only slight indications near the margins and just behind the anterior edge 

 of each segment of the ciirious shining blotches characteristic of the male. 



Kilimayidjaro-Meru : Natron Lakes. 



Liyeiiriis secretarius Giebel. 



One female from Pseudogyps africanus. This specimen I refer to secretarius 

 with some doubt, but in the face of the lack of other specimens, especially males, 

 I do not care to establish a new species for it. The species secretarius is recorded 

 only from Serfentarius serpentarius. 



Kilimandjaro-M eru : Steppe. 



Lipounis plataleaniiii Giebel. 

 One male and one female from Platalea alba. Originally described from Platalea 

 leucorodia. 



Kilimandjaro-M eru: Natron Lakes. 



Lipeunis liebrivus Nitzsch. 

 One male and two females from Balearica regulorum gibbericeps. 

 Kilimandjaro-Meru : Natron Lakes. 



Lipeiirns hifasciatus Piaget. 

 Males and females from Pelecanus roseus. These specimens differ from typical 

 bifasciatus in having the female provided with only very slight abdominal markings. 

 Kilitnandjaro-Meru: Natron Lakes. 



Lipeiirus versicolor Nitzsch. 

 Males and females from Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis. 

 Kilivtandjaro-M eru : Natron Lakes. 



Liotlieida^. 



Triiiotoii luridiim Nitzsch. 

 Specimens from Anas erythrorhyncha and one young individual from H ydrochelidon 

 leucoptera. 



Kilimandjaro-M er ti : Natron Lakes. 



Lieniobothrium titaii Piaget. 



Specimens from Circus ranivorus, Buteo augur and Colymbus capensis. One of 



the largest Mallophaga yet recorded, exceeded in size only by L. gypsis (10.5 mm.) 



from a Griffon Vulture (Transvaal). This forms differs from the Transvaal species 



by having the whole head a little broader (across the temporal angles) than long, 



