LOUSE FAMILY TROCHILIPHAGIDAE — CARRIKER 



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b. Head large (0.89X0.80; frons 0.40); sides of prothorax undulating; 

 pleurites extending beyond inner margin of abdominal carinae; anterior 

 BClerite of sucking apparatus, bearing Btylet, very short and without 



basal prongs; abdomen narrow (1.17) Latitemporalis 



//. Head narrow (0.90X0.73; frons 0.39); sides of prothorax slightly concave, 

 as wide as temples; pleurites narrow, not reaching to submarginal 

 carinae; anterior sclerite of sucking apparatus long and slender, with 

 well developed basal prongs; abdomen very wide (1.52) . abdominalis 



TrochiliphagUS lazulus, new species 

 Figure 9,0 



Type, female adult, from Campylopterus falcatus (Swainson), col- 

 lected by the author at La Africa, Sierra Perijd, Colombia, June 8, 

 1942, USNM 64886. Represented by the 9 holotype and 4 9 para- 

 types (type is the right-hand specimen on slide containing 2 9). 



Measurements follow the next species. 



TrochiliphagUS mexicanus, new species 



Figure 9,h 



Type, female adult, from Phaeihornis superciliosus veracrucis 

 Kidgway, collected by the author at Cerro Tuxtla, Veracruz, Mexico, 

 May 10, 1940, USNM 64887. Represented by the 9 holotype, 

 1 adult 9 paratype, and 1 nymph paratype. 



The measurements (in mm.) for T. lazulus and T. mexicanus are as 

 follows : 



Body 



ffrons 

 Head< temples 



^occiput 

 Prothorax 

 Pterothorax 

 Abdomen 



TrochiliphagUS mellivorus, new species 



Figure 10,a 



Type, female adult, from Florisuga mellivora (Linne), collected by 

 the author at Huanay, Rio Bopi, Bolivia, Aug. 13, 1934, in the col- 

 lection of the author. Represented by the 9 holotype only. 



Diagnosis: Frons flatly convex; sides of prothorax straight; 

 pleurites very narrow, not reaching to submarginal carinae; basal 

 propulsion sclerite of sucking apparatus short and thick. Measure- 

 ments follow the next species. 



