NEW MALLOPHAGA. 527 



Prothorax irregularly hexagonal, with obtuse lateral 

 angles, and posterior margin flatly convex, with a very 

 obtuse median angle; lateral angles with one very long 

 hair and one shorter one, and a series of eight strong 

 hairs along posterior margin, the terminal hair at each 

 end of the series being exactly in the latero-posterior 

 angle; chitinized tranverse bar in anterior part of seg- 

 ment is weakly colored, and the longitudinal bars at its 

 end are indistinct. , Metathorax as short as or slightly 

 shorter than prothorax, wider, with posterior margin 

 straight; two long hairs in posterior angles, and a series 

 of shorter weak ones along posterior margin; anterior 

 angles with strongly colored blotch; an ill-defined, short 

 longitudinal blotch projecting back from converging lateral 

 margins. Legs palely colored. 



Abdomen broadly ovate, wide and flat behind ; posterior 

 angles of segments with two usually long hairs and several 

 short ones; single series of hairs not numerous on dorsal 

 surface; lateral bands blackish brown, broad, interrupted, 

 the segmental portions projecting inward; dark chestnut 

 brown transverse blotches across the segments, with the 

 pale or uncolored sutural bands broad ; the colored trans- 

 verse band of segment 2 is specially strongly marked, 

 and is rather sinuous; last segment with broad, uncol- 

 ored, posterior border, and with posterior margin straight, 

 with a slight median emargination, and a sparse fringe of 

 hairs of different lengths. 



Female. Body, length 2. mm., width .94 mm.; head, 

 length .4 mm., width .7 mm.; perhaps a little darker; 

 the transverse blotches of abdomen better defined; last 

 abdominal segment narrower than in male, and the pos- 

 terior margin broadly parabolic, with few long, and nu- 

 merous short hairs. 



