Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 305 



A New Mallophagan. 



By E. A. MaGREGOR, U. S. Bureau of Entomology, Batesburg, 



S. Carolina. 



Several male specimens of a somewhat curious Colpo- 

 cephalum were taken from the screech owl Otus asio maccal'.i 

 at Dallas, Texas, by the writer in January of 1911. Professor 

 Kellogg validated my convictions that the species was new to 

 science in a communication in part as follows: "* * * but 

 it has such produced and amputated temples and such marked 

 differences in the thorax, that it cannot be put with C. sub- 

 pachygaster * * *." The latter species is a well distributed 

 owl Colpocephalum with broad head and broad abdomen and 

 is perhaps closest to the present species. 



Colpocephalum painei sp. nov. 



Male, 'Length 1.30 mm., width across abdomen .57 mm. Pale yel- 

 low in color with no pronounced markings. 



Head. Length .39 mm., width .53 mm., being thus almost half again 

 as wide as long. Front blunt, very slightly emarginate with no trace 

 of hairs or spines. One long, strong hair on the very prominent angle 

 in front of the deep ocular emargination and two shorter, weaker 

 hairs on the sides before it. Neither the antennae nor the palpi nor- 

 mally projecting. The eye is large, prominent, with a large, black 

 fleck. A narrow, chestnut-yellow, bow-shaped clypeal band. Ocular 

 blotches deep-chestnut, inflated-comma-shaped. The ocular fringe ex- 

 tends to the angle of the temples and is continued onto the latter by a 

 line of four or five short bristles. Temples nearly parallel to one 

 another with two long, very strong hairs near the hinder angle pre- 

 ceded by a shorter, weaker one. Occiput strongly concave, for the 

 most part pale, with a short, transverse, bow-shaped bar connecting 

 laterally with the enlarged ends of two bands which arch obliquely 

 backward to the occipital margin. Occipital bands wanting. 



Thorax. Length .25 mm,, width .52 mm. Prothorax semi-lenticular, 

 the anterior margin rounded, while the posterior margin is much more 

 angulated. The latter bears a long hair at each lateral angle, another 

 pair about half way to the middle, and a pair of somewhat shorter 

 hairs near the rounded median angle. The transverse bar is narrow 

 and indistinct, and the curving chestnut-yellow, longitudinal lines be- 

 yond the ends are clearly defined and are continuous with the oblique 

 bands of the occiput. A small, crescent-shaped marking occurs on 

 each side at the junction of the pro- and mrtathoracic margins and 

 I'lHToaches slightly on the latter segment. Metathorax short, in shape 

 that of an anteriorly emarginated trapezium, with flatly-convex pos- 



