68 MONOGRAPHIC 



Docophorus guttatus. Burmeister Handbuch, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 425. 



Head very pale, tawny yellow, sub triangular, front pro- 

 duced and notched, the anterior depression chestnut, the 

 diagonal bands black, arising very near the apex ; eyes pro- 

 minent; trabeculse strong and conical; antennae pale 

 yellow, the first and second joints much the largest, the 

 three remaining with a deep brown basal annulus; pro- 

 thorax transverse about half the width of the head, chan- 

 nelled in the centre ; metathorax the width of the head, 

 transverse, basal margin sub-angular, fringed with stiff 

 hairs, lateral margins of deep chestnut brown ; abdomen 

 ovate, milky white, the segments nearly equal, the lateral 

 patches and two last segments pitchy black, the first 

 six with a circular white spot in the centre ; legs pale 

 brown ; tibiae with a black annulus at the apex ; anterior 

 femora with a black transverse band, last pair with two 

 bands ; posterior femora very much thickened. Length j . 



Communicated by the Rev. L. Jenyns, from the Jack- 

 daw (Corvus monedula), upon which bird I have since 

 found a single example. The smaller size of this species, 

 but more especially the circular white spots on the sides of 

 the abdomen, readily distinguishes this species from the 

 other Nirmi of the Corvine family. 



6. DOCOPHORUS CRASSIPES. (Louse of the Nutcracker.) 



Plate III. Fig. 6. 



Head dull chestnut, sub-triangular, deeply sinuated before 

 the eyes ; abdomen ovate, milky white, with pitch coloured 

 lateral fasciae ; legs very thick. 



Docophorus crassipes. Bnrmeister Handbuch, ii. pt. ii. p. 425, sp. 7. 



Head and thorax dull chestnut, shining, the former with 

 two diagonal brown bands from the origin of the trabecula; 



