NEW MALLOPHAGA. 95 



large, blunt; eye with a short hair; temporal angles 

 rounded, with two rather short curving hairs; occipital 

 margin straight; bands of the head, viz., broad antennal, 

 diverging occipital, distinct ocular reaching the tips of the 

 occipital, and narrowly marginal, dark brown and well 

 marked; pale brown signature large, with dark brown 

 posterior angle not reaching mandibles and rather blunt. 



Prothorax short, broad, with rounded angles and con- 

 vex posterior margin; one hair in posterior angles ; dis- 

 tinct dark brown lateral and anterior borders, also extend- 

 ing inwards from the posterior angles along the posterior 

 margin, but not meeting; median space almost uncolored. 

 Metathorax pentagonal, with rounding lateral angles and 

 six hairs on each latero- posterior margin; broad lateral 

 dark brown border, broadest in lateral angles. Legs 

 concolorous, with pale brown tinge of body, tarsal claws 

 darker. 



Abdomen elongate, narrow, posterior angles of seg- 

 ment 2 produced, acuminate; lateral margins with two 

 longish hairs, a few longish hairs on dorsal aspect; lateral 

 bands semitranslucent smoky brown, composed of a 

 series of slightly diagonal, narrow, marginal blotches, one 

 on each segment, each blotch widest anteriorly, tapering 

 posteriorly and not quite reaching the posterior angle of 

 the segment ; segments 1-7 with lateral transverse blotches, 

 those on segment 1 meeting on the median line ; large 

 median region of abdomen whitish; segment 8 wholly 

 colored; segment 9 small, uncolored, with very slight an- 

 gular emargination; genital blotch a narrow, curving, 

 transverse band across segment 6. 



Male. Smaller, length 1.34 mm., width .38 mm.; 

 head, length .47 mm., width .37,mm.; metathorax almost 

 wholly fuscous ; the lateral transverse blotches of abdo- 

 men longer, those on segments 6-7 almost, if not quite, 



