1917] McGregor—Eight New Mallophaga of the Genus Lipeurus 109 
dark-brown which involves the entire segment excepting a central, 
clear, urn-shaped area. Legs conventional, pitchy bordered. 
Abdomen clavate, widest on the fifth segment. Segments 1 to 
7 each with black, lateral plates which reach well into the segment 
ahead, and with wide, brown, blotches within the plates with 
deeply indented inner margins. Segments 4 and 5 each with a 
faint central blotch, and a T-shaped blotch involving segments 
6 to 9 inclusive. The posterior lateral angles of segments 3 to 7 
supplied with hairs as follows: Segment 3, a weak prickle; segment 
4, a prickle and a long hair; segment 5, two long hairs; segment 
6, two long hairs; segment 7, a short and a long hair. Segment 
8 with a long hair at middle of lateral margin; segment 9 with 
a terminal fringe of 14 long hairs; segments 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 
8 with a long hair arising just within the head of the lateral plate; 
segments 1 to 7 inclusive with dorsal transverse spines as follows: 
Segment 1, four; segment 2, two; segment 3, two; segment 4, 
four; segment 5, five; segment 6, three; segment 7, four. 
Type: Catalogue No. 21368, U.S. Nat. Mus. 
: t 3 
Lipeurus texanus n. sp. 
One female (Bishopp No. 3244) from meadow lark, Gainesville, 
Texas, November 26, 1915, coll. F.C. Bishopp, and one immature 
individual (Bishopp No. 4015) from turtle dove, Uvalde, Texas, 
November 20, 1914, coll. Parman & Bishopp. 
This species is nearest L. baculus N., from which it is very dis- 
tinct as follows: Occipital margin of head, general shape and 
Drawings by the author. Made through use of camera lucida 
with little attempt to restore symmetry. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE. 
Plate V. 
Fig. 1. Female of Lipeurus mississippiensis sp. nov. 
2. Male of Lipeurus brevicephalus sp. nov. 
3. Left leg II of male of Lipeurus brevicephalus sp. nov. 
(viewed ventrally). 
4. Female of Lipeurus crotophage@ sp. nov. 
5. Right leg III of female of Lipeurus mississippiensis sp. 
nov. (viewed ventrally). 
