90 Mr. B. F. Ciimmings on 



Plate VIII. 



Fig. 1. Platypthima euptychioides, c?. 



Fig. 2, Dicallaneura virgo, $ . 



Fig. 8. albosignata, $ . 



Fig. 4. amabilis mimica, 5 • 



Fig. 5. Lam2)ides nitens, c? . 



Fig. 6. wandammenensis, S • 



Fig. 7. Milionia ivandamvienensce, S ■ 



Fig. 8. witleyensis, S • 



Fig. 9. Eubordeta mars, S . 



Fig. 10. Jlammens discus, 2 - 



III. — New Species of Lice. By Bruce F. Cummings, 

 Biitisli Museum (Natural History). 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



Anoplura. 



Among the dry material, mounted on cardboard in the 

 collection of the British Museum, two specimens were dis- 

 covered Libelled simply ''Pedetes capensis." These, on being 

 washed in caustic potash and mounted on a slide in Canada 

 balsam, proved to be two females of an interesting and 

 hitherto undescribed form. 



EULINOGNATHUS, gen. nov. 



Head longer than broad, anteniise arising just in front of 

 halfway, broader behind the antennae than in front. No 

 projecting postero-lateral angles. Behind, the head is sunk 

 deep into the thorax. Around the mouth in front a circlet of 

 triangular denticles. Abdomen without tergites or sternites. 

 Five pairs of pleurites, the anterior pair well developed. 

 First pair of legs small. Hairs on the abdomen modified, 

 being long, flattened, parallel-sided, truncate at the tip. 



On Pedetes capensis, now known as Pedetes cofer, Pall, 

 (family Pedetidse). 



Eulinognathus denticulatus, sp. n. 



External Form. Female. — Head: the outline is well shown 

 in the figure (text-fig. 1). The characteristic features of the 

 head are the circlet of denticles around the mouth, the 

 absence of postero-lateral angles and also of any "neck" or 

 narrowing of the head just before entering, the thorax, so that 



