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Heleonomus confusus, n. sp. 



Colpocephalum miaiidrium (in part) Kellogg, Rept. Kilimand- 

 jaro Exped., No. 15, pt. 4, p. 53 (1908). 



This species has already been described as the female of 

 H. miandrius (Kel.). One of the two specimens at hand is a male 



in which the genitalia are very weakly 

 developed, this fact, and their presence 

 upon the same host, having led to the 

 confusion of this species and //. mian- 

 drius. 



Host, Balearica regidorum gibhericeps 

 (Africa). 



Genus Myrsidea Waterston. 



Figs. 10b, 14. 



Myrsidea Waterston, Ent. Monthly 

 Mag., Vol. 51, pp. 12-13. (1915). 



Menoponidai with indistinct patches 

 of spines upon the ventral face of the 

 posterior femora and certain abdominal 

 sternites, those upon the sternites merg- 

 ing more or less with the general chseto- 

 taxy. Thorax distinctly 3-segmented, 

 the metathorax frequently curiously 

 modified and produced posteriorly. Head 

 of characteristic shape, the forehead 

 rounded, the temples very prominent and 

 with the anterior margins nearly at right angles to the longitudinal 

 axis of the body. Lateral margin of the head continuous with the 

 eye. Oesophageal sclerite and glands present, although sometimes 

 very small. Abdominal tergites of the female sometimes modified. 

 Second abdominal sternite usually, but not always, with asters of 

 heavy spines. Male genitalia of a type common to this genus and 

 to Denfiyus, the basal plate moderately long, continuous distally 

 with a broad rounded lamina at the base of which the stout, 

 apically recurved parameres are set. 



Fig. 14 



Myrsidea diffusa (Kell.), 

 ventral side of male. 



