NEW MALLOPHAGA. 503 



uncolored trabecular; antenna? rather long, slender; seg- 

 ment 2 longest and very slender, especially at base, seg- 

 ment 3 slightly longer than segment 4, and segment 5 

 slightly longer than segment 3, segments 3-5 colored, 

 with uncolored distal extremities; eyes small, but slightly 

 produced, and with a hair; temporal margins very slightly 

 convex, with two long hairs; occipital margin straight, 

 bare; lateral margins of forehead and hind head bordered 

 with black, widest on temples, and with uneven inner 

 margin on forehead; the lateral borders of forehead pass 

 the anterior lateral angles but do not run clear across the 

 front, although a clear, slightly colored, even chitin band 

 borders the entire clypeal front; mandibles and oesopha- 

 geal sclerite distinct, dark brown, and an occipital signa- 

 ture acutely pointed anteriorly showing through from 

 under side. 



Prothorox short, quadrangular (that part not covered 

 by the head), with rounding posterior angles and straight 

 posterior margin ; without hairs ; whitish, with broad black 

 lateral borders. Metathorax short, but little longer than 

 prothorax, broader than long, with diverging sides which 

 are slightly concave anteriorly, and straight, bare, pos- 

 terior margin; the posterior angles v. r ith five long hairs in 

 two groups of two and three, rising from white spaces, 

 the group of two hairs really situated on the outer part 

 of posterior margin; segment wmite, with broad lateral 

 borders which are widest in posterior angles and extend 

 inward, tapering along the posterior margin, 'not reaching 

 the middle of the segment; metasternum with a brown 

 median blotch; legs whitish, with distinct blackish bor- 

 der on femora and tibia?, and annulations on femora; 

 coxa? almost wholly colored, and tarsi brown. 



Abdomen elongate, subparallel-sided, with a few long- 

 ish hairs on dorsal surface; whitish, with sharply marked 



