NO. 3658 MALLOPHAGA—ELBEL 23 
with 10-11 thick, posteriorly directed setae (fig. 72 sp). Anal fringe 
similar to that of C. acutovulvata, with 56-64 setae. 
Discussion: Chapinia waniti resembles most closely C. aeutovulvata. 
Abdominal sternite II of both sexes has more total setae in C. wamniti 
than in corresponding sexes of C. acutovulvata. The male genitalia 
have endomeres possessing on each outer rim serrulations on the 
posterior inner margin in C. waniti but a triangular internal knob in 
C. acutovulvata. Each lateral projection of the ventral sclerite 
between female vulva and anus has more than eight thick, posteriorly 
directed setae in C. waniti but fewer than eight in all other Chapinia. 
The female anal fringe has at least 56 setae in C. waniti but at most 
54 setae in C. acutovulvata. 
Material examined: 8 males and 7 females from fresh material 
collected in Thailand. 
Type host: Anorrhinus galeritus carinatus (Blyth, 1845). 
Type material: Holotype male and allotype female from Chong, 
Muang, Trang, Thailand, Mar. 4, 1963, collected by Wichit Suwan 
Laong, USNM. Paratypes: 6 males and 3 females with same data; 
1 male and 1 female from Lamo, Muang, Trang, Thailand, Mar. 3, 
1963, collected by Wichit Suwan Laong, USNM; 2 females from 
Na Wong, Muang, Phatthalung, Thailand, Mar. 6, 1963, collected 
by Wichit Suwan Laong, USNM. 
Chapinia waniti is named for Mr. Wanit Songprakob, Songkhla, 
Thailand, in appreciation for mounting Mallophaga and for directing 
the activities of the field collector, Wichit Suwan Laong. After my 
departure from Thailand in April 1963, both boys collected for the 
Bernice P. Bishop Museum. 
Chapinia acutovulvata (Piaget) 
Fiaures 9, 10, 35, 36 
Menopon aculovulvatum Piaget, 1881, p. 5, pl. 1 (fig. 4). [Type host: Buceros 
malabaricus= Anthracoceros a. albirostris (Shaw, 1808).] 
Menopon acutovulvatum Piaget, 1885, p. 106, pl. 11 (fig. 8). 
Allomenopon mjébergi Eichler, 1947, pp. 2, 20, figs. 1, 2 (new synonym). [Type 
host: Anthracoceros converus (Temminck, 1831).] 
Chapinia mjébergi (Hichler)—Hopkins and Clay, 1952, p. 68. 
Chapinia acutovulvata (Piaget)—Hopkins and Clay, 1952, p. 67. 
Dr. Eichler’s specimens of Chapinia mjébergi from Anthracoceros 
convezus in the Zoological Museum, Humboldt University, Berlin, 
were loaned through the courtesy of Dr. von Kéler. Comparison 
of these lice with specimens of Chapinia acutovulvata from the type 
host discloses no morphological differences between the two series. 
A lectotype male for Chapinia acutovulvata was designated by Clay 
(1949a) from the Piaget collection, now in BMNH, BM 777, with 
6 syntype females, BM 774 and 776. 
