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Female: Head as in male except third antennal segmtent not modi- 

 fied. Thorax and legs as in m.ale. Abdomen lacking plates except for 

 one tergal plate on segments 2, 8, and 9, and the usual sternal plates 

 on the genital segments. Paratergal plates as in male, except plate 

 VIII not joined to tergal plate of segment 8. Typical abdominal 

 segments with two rows of setae. Genitalia not diagnostic. 



Lengths: Male 1.2 mm.; female 1.5 mm. 



Neohaematopinus petauristae Ferris 



Neohaematopinus petauristae Ferris, Contributions toward a monograph of the 



sucking lice, pt. 4, p. 258, figs 166, 167A, 167C-E, 1923. 

 Petauristophthirus petauristae, Eichler, Boll. Soc. Ent. Italiana, vol. 79, p. 12, 1949. 

 Neohaematopinus petauristae, Ferris, The sucking lice, p. 195, 1951. 



Ferris described petauristae from male and female specimens taken 

 from Petaurista inornata, Kaslimir. The holotype is a female. The 

 record below is the first since the original description. 



New record: Two males, two females from Petaurista taylori, 

 PRACHUAP KHiRi KHAN: Ban Khlua Klang, December 14, 1952, 

 RE-2032. 



Polyplax asiatica Ferris 



Polyplax asiatica Ferris, Contributions toward a monograph of the sucking lice, 

 pt. 4, p. 233, fig. 152D, 1923; The sucking lice, p. 206, 1951.— Hopkins, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 119, p. 483, 1949. — ^ Johnson, Bull. Brooklyn 

 Ent. Soc, vol. 5:3, p. 77, figs. 1-5, 7, 1958. 



The holotj^pe female and allotype male of Polyplax asiatica were 

 collected from Crocidura caerula, Rangoon, Burma. Ferris also 

 reported several females from Nesokia indica (as A^. hardwicki) from 

 Baluchistan. 



New record: One female from Bandicota hengalensis, kan- 

 chanaburt: Kanchanaburi Cit}^ June 10, 1952, F-875. 



P. asiatica is probably very rare on Bandicota hengalensis, the 

 normal louse parasite of this rat being Hoplopleura malabarica Werneck. 

 Ferris and Hopkins havQ reported asiatica from Nesokia indica, 

 Eattus concolor, and Bandicota malabarica. Nesokia, which is closely 

 related to Bandicota, is probably the primary host, although asiatica 

 appears to be well adapted to life on other related genera of rodents. 

 Its occurrence on Crocidura, a shrew, v/as almost certainly fortuitous. 



Polyplax cannomydis, new species 



Figures 69-72, 74 



T\PE data: Holotype male, allotype female from Cannomys badius 

 minor (bamboo rat), rat buri: Banpong, Boekphrai, June 18, 1955, 

 Y-236, R. E. Elbe! and Banpong Plague Lab. personnel, collectors. 

 Two male, four female paratypes with same data as holotype. One 

 female paratype from C. badius wAnor, kanchanaburi: Tamaka, 



