I9I4-] Kellogg & Paine : Mallophaga. 2ig 



anterior angles rounded, sides diverging and slightly concave with 

 posterior angles protruding somewhat and bearing a pustulated 

 hair. Posterior margin but slightly concave, bare, Metathorax 

 with rounded angles, especially the anterior, and sides parallel ; 

 posterior margin obtusely angled on the abdomen. Two long 

 hairs on each side, rising from a large, prominent, protruding 

 pustule situated midway on the lateral margin ; two other shorter 

 ones on each side near the posterior margin, arising from a sub- 

 marginal pustule at a point about three-fifths the distance from 

 the meson to the side. Legs pale with a number of heavy 

 spines. 



Abdomen broadly elliptical, somewhat flattened toward the 

 front and widest at the third segment. First segment much lon- 

 ger than any of those following, with straight, diverging sides, 

 and broad slightly coloured marginal bands. Second to seventh seg- 

 ments with pale marginal bands giving rise to internal appen- 

 dages, turning inward along the anterior margins and appearing 

 as sharp, transversely linear lateral abdominal blotches dark in 

 colour ; these transverse appendages are produced forward into the 

 segment preceding in the form of semicircular, plate-like pro- 

 cesses. Segments one to seven with a transverse row of short 

 hairs, limited between the lateral blotches above mentioned, the 

 more lateral ones on segments two to six forming a group of long 

 hairs, varying in number from four on the second to seven on the 

 fourth and fifth : also the usual group of long hairs in each pos- 

 terior lateral angle, except the first, most of them projecting from 

 the ventral surface. Last segment rounded, entire, with numer- 

 ous dorsal and ventral hairs. Genitalia prominent, extending 

 nearly the length of the abdomen, with long, sharp appendages. 



Goniocotes nirmoides, n. sp. 

 (Plate xiv, figs. 5, 5a, 56, 5c, and 5^.) 



Several males and females from Lophophorus impeyanus (Zoo- 

 logical Garden, Calcutta). This well-marked form is character- 

 ized by the shape of the head, which is short and rounded in 

 front with round, not angulated, temples. 



Description of female : Head about as broad as long, sub- 

 pentagonal in shape with broadly rounded front, flattened on 

 the sides, and converging temples. Antennal bands entire, pale 

 and widened in front with two dorsal hairs near the meson ; 

 also six marginal hairs on each side, the third being long. As 



