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half as long. Carriker 1 lists and figures a form under the name 

 of G. laticeps Piaget which, from his figure, is apparently G. aliceps 

 Nitzsch. 



Description of male: Head broadly conical, broader than long, with rounded 

 front; three minute hairs on the clypeus on each side and two more prominent 

 pustulated ones on the dorsal surface near the center. Notch for the reception of 

 the antenna? distinct but not deep; antennae situated well forward, with first 

 segment longest and broadest; 

 second segment longer than 

 those following, fourth shortest 

 and third and last of about 

 equal length; last segment 

 truncate. Antennal bands 

 prominent, extending from 

 margin before the antennas in 

 to the mandibles; dark chest- 

 nut in color except midway 

 between margin and mandibles 

 where they are blackish. A 

 large, oval space, light in color, 

 before the mandibles, with a 

 small crescent shaped signa- 

 ture near the center. Eye 

 large, slightly protruding, with 

 a small hair at its posterior 

 margin ; a rounded ocular 

 blotch in front of the eye; 

 also a similar one behind the 

 eye formed by the termination 

 of the broad marginal band of 

 the temple; a prominent pus- 

 tulated hair on the dorsal sur- 

 face near the anterior ocular 

 blotch. Temples highly di- 

 vergent with margin straight, 



Fig. 3. Goniodes pennatice.ps Paine and Mann. 



bearing two short hairs;- posterior angle acute, with one very long hair and a 

 small one; the broad temples are characteristic to this group of Goniodes-. Pos- 

 terior margin long and sinuous with central concavity very deep; margin on 

 either side of the central concavity broadly rounded with two long hairs reaching 

 well back on the metathorax; occipital bands prominent, dark in color with 

 black occipital blotches; bands divergent, extending forward and fading out 

 opposite the posterior projections of the mandibles; a prominent postulated hair 

 on the dorsal surface, close to the inner edge of each occipital blotch. 



1 Carriker, M. A. Mallophaga from birds of Costa Rica, Central America. Univ. Studies, 

 Univ. of Neb., Vol. Ill, No. 2 p. 35. (April, 1903). 



