NEW MALLOPHAGA. 83 



Description of male. Body, length 2. mm., width .72 

 mm.; pale golden brown, with characteristic angulated, 

 black, lateral abdominal markings: abdomen Nirmoid, 

 head large and just as broad as long. 



Head, length .62 mm., width .61 mm. ; broadly conical; 

 clvpeus with uncolored, truncated, frontal margin, and 

 rounded angles; a very fine short pair at middle of each 

 rounded anterior angle, and one at the suture; temporal 

 margins with one short prickle and three long hairs; eye 

 with a short hair; trabecular broad, acute-angled; antenna? 

 short, thick; signature pale smoky brown, broadly hex- 

 agonal; posterior margin slightly rounding; on each side 

 of the signature a similarly colored elongated triangular 

 blotch apex anteriorly; ground color of head pale golden 

 brown with darker mandibles, broad curving antennal 

 bands, narrow temporal margin, and occipital bands con- 

 vex outwardly ; occipital margin straight. 



Prothorax, short, broad, a single short hair in posterior 

 angle, and anterior margin deeply emarginated and pro- 

 jecting under the head; broad lateral margins and for- 

 ward projecting anterior processes dark brown. Meta- 

 thorax, short, broad, with rounding lateral margins; with 

 a short prickle at rounding anterior angle, a short prickle 

 and long hair in middle of side, and one long and two 

 short hairs at rounding posterior angle ; posterior margin 

 slightly convex on abdomen. 



Abdomen, long, ovate, with obtuse posterior angles of 

 segments projecting along lateral margin, the angles of 

 segments 1-6 bearing a single hair, 7-8 with two hairs; 

 first segment with brown triangular blotch in anterior 

 angles, segments 2-7 with brown transverse blotches cov- 

 ering almost entire segment; along lateral margins on 

 each segment a sharp blackish angulated line extending 

 forward into preceding segment; inside of this broken 



