ANOPLURA OF THAILAND — JOHNSON 577 



pseudopenis and the inner aspect of the tip. In malaharica the pseudo- 

 penis is serrate, and the angle at its broadest point is always much 

 nearer the base of the pseudopenis than it is to the joining of the 

 inner aspect of the tip. 



Specimens of malaharica illustrated were from Bandicota benga- 

 lensis, rat buri, Banpong, Boekphrai. Drawings of male and female 

 paratergal plates of hirsuta were taken from specimens from Florida, 

 and the male genitalia from a specimen from the Panama Canal 

 Zone — all from Sigmodon. 



Hoplopleura pacifica Ewing 



Hoplopleura pacifica Ewing, Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bull., No. 14, p. 9, figs. 



Ib-c, 1924.— Hopkins, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 119, p. 481, 1949. 

 Hoplopleura oenomydis, Ferris, Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bull., No. 98, p. 121 



(in part), 1932; The sucking lice, p. 139 (in part), 1951. — Pritchard, Journ. 



Parasit., vol. 35, p. 374, 1947. 



Hoplopleura pacifica was described from five males and seven 

 females collected off Rattus hawaiiensis [Rattus exulans hawaiiensis], 

 Hawaiian Islands. 



New records: A long series of specimens from Rattus rattus ssp. 

 from the following provinces: Chiengmai, Rat Buri, Chaiyaphum, 

 Nakhon Ratchasima (=Khorat), and Chiang Rai. 



H. pacifica is the characteristic louse parasite of Thai R. rattus. 

 Hopkins (1949) records all Hoplopleura specimens from Rattus 

 species as pacifica, not H. oenomydis Ferris, and notes that H. oenomy- 

 dis is restricted, so far as is known, to the African murine genus 

 Oenomys. 



Diagnoses and descriptions of oenomydis and pacifica, together with 

 host records, are being prepared for publication by Captain John E, 

 Scanlon; therefore, no diagnoses are included in this paper. 



Hoplopleura thurmanae, new species 



Figures 17-19, 22-23, 25 



Type data: Holotype female from Tamiops macclellandi, loei: 

 Dan Sai, Na Phung, Ban Khok, Namlang Mountain, May 29, 1955, 

 RE-5416, R. E. Elbel collector. Allotype male, same data, but 

 June 3, 1955, RE-5512. Paratype male, same data but May 23, 

 1955, RE-5290. Paratype female, same data, but May 29, 1955, 

 RE-5415. Paratype female, same data, but June 6, 1955, RE-5555. 

 Paratype female, same data, but June 1, 1955, RE-5460. Four 

 male, one female paratypes from Tamiops macclellandi ssp., chaiya- 

 phum: Phukhieo, Ban Kaeng, Ban Lat, January 16, 1952, RE-355. 

 Four male, four female paratypes, same data, but January 18, 1955, 



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