NEW MALLOPHAGA. 505 



one next to the most anterior being the longest; behind 

 the suture two longer hairs ; and rising from the base of 

 the trabecular a long hair from the prominent eye, and 

 two very long hairs and two prickles on the temporal 

 margin; occipital margin flatly concave, nearly straight, 

 bare; antennae slender, all segments weakly colored, 

 with uncolored tips; trabecular small but distinct, uncol- 

 ored; brownish white, with signature and temples brown, 

 and distinct occipital and interrupted antennal bands 

 blackish brown; the signature is broad and short, obtusely 

 angled behind, and shows a number of small whitish 

 subcircular spots; internal bands (/. e. margins of the 

 ventral furrow running anteriorly from the mouth) show- 

 ing through faintly. 



Prothorax quadrangular, a little broader than long, 

 with slightly diverging sides, and straight, bare, posterior 

 margin; no hair in posterior angles; ground color that 

 of the head, with narrow uncolored median longitudinal 

 line forking at anterior end ; broad dark rusty brown 

 lateral borders. Metathorax but little longer than pro- 

 thorax, with diverging sides; lateral margins with a slight 

 but distinct rounding concavity near anterior end; pos- 

 terior margin straight; posterior angles with three long- 

 ish hairs, and a group of two on posterior margin near 

 the angle; these two and two of the three in angle pus- 

 tulated; ground color of segment same as or slightly 

 darker than prothorax, with uncolored median longitud- 

 inal line, and lateral irregular dark brown lateral borders, 

 narrower than those of prothorax. Legs long, coxar 

 elongate, brown, with whitish distal ends; femora and 

 tibiar concolorous with pale ground color of thorax, with 

 rusty brown marginal markings. Sternal markings com- 

 posed of rather short, broad intercoxal lines between 

 pro- and meso-legs, connecting with a short, narrow 



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