NEW MALLOPHAGA. I4I 



a weak hair, a short thick pointed spine, a shorter hair, 

 two longer hairs, a shorter hair, and in the expansion in 

 front of the ocular emargination four rather stiff longish 

 bristles, the second being the longest; palpi just project- 

 ing beyond the margin, and antenna? projecting by all of 

 the last segment which is diagonally truncated ; the eye 

 is inconspicuous but double, the anterior half being the 

 more prominent; in the ocular emargination several hairs, 

 and a fringe of short thick-set hairs extending back to the 

 middle of the temporal margin ; on the temporal margin 

 several prominent hairs, of which two are very long; oc- 

 cipital margin concave, bare; two large, black, occipital 

 triangles extending forward, and paling and tapering rap- 

 idly, as occipital bands; abroad occipital black border 

 connecting the triangles; large, black, ocular blotches, 

 and an uneven, curving, dark brown, inner band, running 

 from the ocular blotches to the frontal margin, the ante- 

 rior end of these bands expanded and darker. 



Prothorax short, angularly elliptical, with a series of 

 seven hairs along each lateral half of the posterior margin, 

 beginning with a short spiny hair in the apex of the lat- 

 eral angle; whole segment pale golden brown, with a 

 paler narrow transversal blotch in front of the middle. 

 Metathorax short, broad, trapezoidal, lateral margin with 

 short spiny hairs; color pale brown, darker laterally. 

 Legs long, femora thickened, tibia? slender, expanding 

 distally, especially the tibia? of the forelegs; tarsi one-half 

 as long as tibia?; color pale golden brown, with dark 

 brown markings on dorsal aspect of femur and tibia?. 



Abdomen elongate, widest at fourth segment and grad- 

 ually narrowing in both directions; ends of segments pro- 

 jecting on the sides and armed with stiff, sharp -pointed 

 hairs, especially in posterior angles; segments 6 — 9 with 

 a pair each of very long hairs : ninth segment broad and 



