NEW MALLOPHAGA. 495 



Description of male. Body, length 1.56 mm., width 

 .52 mm. ; whitish, with brown median blotches and black 

 marginal bands. 



Head, length .37 mm., width 37 mm.; truncate or very 

 slightly convex in front, with two or three very short in- 

 distinct marginal hairs; trabecular small and weak, reach- 

 ing half way to segment 1 of antennas ; eye indistinct, 

 with a fine prickle ; temporal margins with two prickles 

 and a weak hair; occipital margin straight, bare; an- 

 tennas with segment 1 uncolored; other segments dark 

 brown, with wide uncolored sutures; antennal bands 

 narrow, black, angulated almost at right angles and with 

 the black color interrupted just in front of the angulation ; 

 bases of antennal bands meeting the inner ends of dis- 

 tinct, narrow, ocular bands whose outer ends meet anterior 

 ends of narrow black temporal borders, with inner mar- 

 gins slightlv crenate; short black internal bands parallel 

 with anterior marginal parts of antennal bands ; a shield- 

 shaped occipital signature and oblong blotches at its sides 

 showing through from under side. 



Prothorax with flatly rounded sides and rounded pos- 

 terior angles, each angle bearing one small hair; anterior 

 angles containing a large dark brown blotch, and inter- 

 coxal lines of sternum showing through as black diagonal 

 lines in posterior angles. Metathorax with rounding 

 margins, rounded on abdomen, with five weak hairs in 

 each lateral fourth of the posterior margin; small black 

 linear blotches in anterior angles, and large irregular 

 black lateral blotches not contiguous to the lateral mar- 

 gins, the sternal markings showing through dark chestnut 

 brown. Sternal markings consisting of intercoxal lines 

 and a median blotch on metasternum. Legs, femora and 

 tibiae with dorsal marginal black markings and a blackish 

 brown annulation near distal extremity ; tarsi paler brown. 



