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Anormo(/<)mphiis Jyii'ifshciil-oi ]>artL'iiof, 2 J c? , Scptcinbor otli, 

 li)18: Amani. 



Aiiax 2y<^''f^'c^^ope Selys, 1 J , full}' mature and in line condition, 

 October loth, 191S, at light, 10 p.:m. : Amara. 



Orflietrum sahina Drury, 1 J , i)robaljl3' end of July, 1918 : 

 Sharoban, E. Djala. 



C'rocothemis servilia Drury, 2 cj" c< , 2 5 5 , Septem1)er 5th, 101 S; 

 1 $ , October 19th, 1917 : Amara ; 1 cT , July 30th, 1918 : Sharoban. 



D/phicodes lefehvrei Kamb., 2 cJ d , 3 ? $ (sub-juv.), July 30th, 

 31st, 1918 : Sharoban. 



Sympetnim decolomtum Selys, 1 cf , October 21:th, 1918: Amara. 



S. fonscolonibii Selys, 1 d , 1 $, September 10th, 1918: Amara. 



Seli/siofJiemis niffra Vanderl., 1 S (sub-juv.), August 16th, 1917, 

 on a lamp, 10 p.m. : Basra ; 1 d , 1 ? , August 18th, 1918 : Fao ; 1 $ , 

 September ISth, 1918 : Amara (still abundant). 



Witli reference to the blue and the green forms of the female of 

 Anax parthenope, I have suggested elsewhere that the latter ma}^ be 

 better protected than the former. In this connection the following 

 observation by Buxton seems to be of great interest: — -"Near Amara 

 I have shot Purple Heron (Ardea ^9«;y)«re«) with Anax in its- 

 oesophagus." Unfortunately, the sex and colour are not noted. 



13 Blackford Road, Edinburgh. 

 December 1919. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF LOUSE FKOM AN 

 ELEPHANT SHREW. 



BY G. A. H. BEDFORD, F.E.S., 

 Entomologist, Veteriiiary Research Division, Union of S. Africa. 



The description of this new louse, which belongs to the order 

 Ano])lura and to the sub-order Siphunculata, is based on several females 

 and two males taken from several specimens of Elephantulus ritpestris 

 jamesoni at Onderstepoort, near Pretoria, by the writer in December 1919. 



It is the first species of louse to be recorded from an elcjihant 

 shrew, and, as was to be expected, proves to be a new species, and also 

 to belong to a new genus, for Avhich I propose the name Neolinognafhus. 



In addition to the above material collected on these Insectivora, all 

 the hosts proved to be parasitized by a small undetermined yellow mite, 

 which was only found on the bare parts of the skin round the tail, with 



