Some Ectoparasites in the South African Museum. 313 

 SUB-ORDER AMBLYCEKA. 



FAMILY GYROPIDAE. 



GEN. GLIRICOLA, Mjob. 

 Gliricola, Mjoberg, Arkiv. for Zoologi, Band 6, N:o. 13, p. 18 (1910). 



GLITUCOLA GRACILIS, N. (1818). 

 Gyropus gracilis, Nitzsch, in Giebel, Zeitschr. f. ges. Naturw. 



vol. xviii. p. 92, pi. ii. figs. 10, 11 (1861). 

 9 , 10 imm. Cavia cobaya (Guinea-pig). 



GEN. GYROPUS, Nitzsch. 

 Gyropus, Nitzsch, in Germar's Mag. f. Insekt. vol. 3, p. 302 (1818). 



GYROPUS OVALIS, N. (1818). 

 Gyropus ovalis, Nitzsch, in Giebel, Zeitschr. f. ges. Naturw. 



vol. xviii. p. 89, pi. ii. figs. 1-9 (1861). 

 5 J c? , 6 5 $ , 21 imm. Cavia cobaya (Guinea-pig). 



FAMILY MENOPONIDAE. 



GEN. MENOPON, Nitzsch. 

 Menopon, Nitzsch, in Germar's Mag. f. Insekt. vol. 3, p. 299 (1819). 



MENOPON APPENDICULATUM, Piaget (1880). 



Menopon appendiculatum, Piaget (1880). 



Menopon appendiculatum, Piaget, Les Pediculines, pp. 473-474, 



pi. xxxvi. fig. 8 (1880). 

 2 $ $ , 3 ? J , 17 imm. Unknown host. 



The $ $ are scarcely mature, but the genitalia are plainly dis- 

 cernible, leaving one in no doubt as to the sex. In the younger 

 specimen the basal plate alone is chitinized. 



We feel fairly confident in quoting Piaget's name for these 

 peculiar examples, although neither in dimensions nor in some 

 details of chaetotaxy and outline do they completely agree with 

 Piaget's description. But on the other hand, there are in the 

 present case discrepancies between the text and the figure of the 

 French author. Piaget remarks as to the host of appendiculatum : 

 " Sur une Perdix cinerea. Ce parasite, si differente du type qui 

 infeste les perdix me parait un individu egare." 



