NEW MALLOPHAGA. 5 T 7 



Head, length .68 mm., width .7 mm.; front narrow, 

 flatly convex, without hairs; sides with a distinct round- 

 ing emargination even with the mouth parts; ocular 

 emargination filled by the conspicuous eye; occipital 

 angles not so acute as in angulatum, but projecting 

 backwards nearly to lateral angles of prothorax, and with 

 three longish hairs. Markings similar in position to those 

 of angulatum but more pronounced; antennal fossa en- 

 tirely rimmed and connected with occipital border by a 

 short occipital band; in front of the antennal fossa three 

 blotches (instead of two as in angulatum), the most 

 anterior being a short band projecting inward from the 

 lateral margin. 



Prothorax with the constriction in front of lateral angles 

 especially marked and the angles with one or two spines 

 but no hair; general color of the segment golden brown, 

 with black submarginal lateral bands. Metathorax with 

 a rounded swelling on anterior third of sides, without 

 marginal hairs and with markings resembling those of 

 angulatum, viz., irregular black blotches in anterior 

 angles, submarginal lateral bands continuous with those 

 of abdomen, and two short linear blotches lying inside of 

 the lateral bands which are in this species entirely dis- 

 connected from the bands and are but slightly diagonal. 

 Legs pale with distinct narrow black margins on femora 

 and indistinct narrower tibial margins. 



Abdomen; segments with one long hair on lateral mar- 

 gin near posterior angle; posterior margin of last seg- 

 ment with hairs composing the delicate fringe unusually 

 long; uncolored to pale golden, with uniform submar- 

 ginal lateral black bands (more nearly continuous than in 

 angulatum, the diagonal sutures and lateral diplacement 

 of the various segmental portions being less marked) ; 



