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3. BooPiA MiNUTA, found on Dorsalis Wallaby, Macropus 



dorsalis. 



Pale yellowish-white ; head tawny yellow, darker anteriorly ; 

 clypeus semilunar ; palpi long and slightly clavate ; antennae 

 with last joint produced to a blunt point and flattened posteriorly ; 

 temporal angles broad and truncate ; eyes slightly convex ; base 

 convex ; prothorax elliptical, truncate anteriorly and rotundate 

 posteriorly, slightly broader than long ; metathorax sub-conical 

 and truncate ; legs, a chestnut ring on distal femur and tibia, 

 second tarsal joint has several transverse rows of small hairs 

 inferiorly; abdomen ovate, bluntly serrated laterally. Length 

 1. 18 mm., breadth .60. 



Genus. — Latumcephalum. 



Generic characters : — Head broader than long, three divisions 

 on lateral margins ; eyes small ; palpi apparently two-jointed, 

 but in reality four-jointed, first very short and fourth and fifth 

 welded together; antennte four-jointed; abdomen deeply 

 serrated laterally ; tarsal joints nearly equal in size ; two ungues. 



4. Latumcephalum macropus. 



Colour whitish ; head fiattened, cone-shaped, with three 

 depressions or slits on the lateral margins, about one and a half 

 times as broad as long, with truncate basal angles and sinuously 

 concave base ; chestnut markings round basal margins and on 

 the inner side of a wide, shallow sinus which holds the antennge ; 

 clypeus narrow and semilunar ; palpi exserted, four-jointed, first 

 very short, second long and cylindrical, fourth and fifth clavate 

 and. welded together ; antennae stout and capitate, first joint 

 semi-cylindrical, second globular, third pedunculate, and fourth 

 semi-globular ; prothorax transversely elliptical, slightly concave 

 anteriorly and convex posteriorly, lateral angle acute ; metathorax 

 somewhat quadrate, concave anteriorly and convex posteriorly, 

 with depression in each lateral margin ; legs robust, first tarsal 

 joint a little smaller than the second ; abdomen oval, nine 

 segm::nts, bluntly and deeply serrated laterally. Length 1.15 

 mm., breadth .44 mm. Found on the skin of the Wallabies. 

 Feeds on epidermis. Rather sluggish in movements. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE. 



I. — Boopia nota-fusca (male). 

 2. — B. bettongia (male). 

 3. — B. minuta (female). 



4. — Latumcephalum macropus (fe- 

 male). 

 4A. — Do do — palpi. 



RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 



" Catalogue of Nests and Eggs of Birds found Breeding 

 IN Australia and Tasmania." — The second part of this 

 publication, the general plan of which was given in the Victorian 

 Naturalist, vol. xvii., p. 66, has recently been issued. The 



