LOUSE FAMILY TROCHILIPHAGIDAE — CARRIKER 



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Trochiloecetes fasciatus, new species 



Figure 8,a-c 



Type, female adult, from Lesbia nuna pallidiventris (Simon), col- 

 lected by the author at Cajabamba, Dep. Cajabamba, Peru, Apr. 22, 

 1933, in the collection of the author. Known from 9 holotype only. 



Frons transverse and uniformly colored; frons wider (0.34 to 0.35); 

 sucking apparatus short and heavy; 4 to 5 short setae on each side 

 of gular area; heavy, deeply colored temporal carinae, curving back- 

 ward from near eye almost to prosternum. 



The measurements (in mm.) for T. bolivianus and T. fasciatus 

 are as follows : 



T. bolivianus T. fasciatus 



Body 



(frons 

 temples 

 occiput 

 Prothorax 

 Pterothorax 

 Abdomen 



Trochiloecetes oenonae, new species 



Figure S,d-e 



Type, female adult, from Chrysuronia oenona longirostris Berlepsch, 

 collected by the author at Convenci6n, Dep. Norte de Santander, Co- 

 lombia, Jan. 20, 1943, in the collection of the author. Known from 

 a single 9 the holot3 7 pe. 



Similar in many ways to fasciatus, but without temporal carinae, 

 merely marginal carinae, broken by eye. Measurements follow T. 

 illumani. 



Trochiloecetes multicarinae, new species 



Figure S,f-g 



Type, female adult, from Boissoneaua f. ftavescens (Loddiges), 

 collected by the author at Buenos Aires, Dep. Norte de Santander, 

 Colombia, Oct. 2, 1946, in the collection of the author. Known from 

 a single 9, the holotype. 



Distinguished by large size (2.54); frons deeply concave, uni- 

 formly colored and with rounded sides; 5 setae on each side of gular 

 area; transverse, frontal carinae wide and deeply colored; heavy, 

 deeply colored marginal and submarginal carinae on thoracic seg- 

 ments. Measurements follow the next species. 



