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short and thick ; proihorax transverse and small ; meta- 

 thorax triangular, ciliated with stiff hairs ; abdomen ovate, 

 pale, fulvous -white, first segment tawny and angular, last 

 chestnut and rotundate,the intermediate seven with a fuscous 

 margin ; legs dull yellow, and strong. Length J. 



I have found this species twice upon the Woodcock (Sco- 

 lopax rusticola), and suspect it is the Auratus of Nitzsch and 

 Burmeister. The figure, however, in the posthumous paper 

 of Lyonet, edited by De Hahn in the Memoirs du Museum, 

 vol. 18, is not the Auratus, although given as such, but 

 most probably the Nirmus sellatus. 



19. DOCOPHORUS FRINGELLJE. Denny. (Louse of the 

 Mountain Sparrow.) 



Plate III. Fig. 2. 



Chestnut yellow, shining, and smooth; head obtusely 

 triangular ; abdomen ovate, the lateral fascia short, trun- 

 cate and confluent, pale, fuscous. 



Head obtusely triangular; clypeus produced, emarginate, 

 with a broad depression, and two semicircular lines uniting 

 near the centre, lateral margin concave, with two diagonal 

 fuscous bands passing to the occiput, base rotundate ; eyes 

 flat ; trabeculae strong and curved ; antennae rather slender, 

 the first joint long and cylindrical ; prothorax transverse ; 

 metathorax chestnut, scarcely so wide as the head, lateral 

 margin rotundate, posterior angular and pitchy, ciliated 

 with stiff hairs; abdomen ovate, dirty yellow- white, the 

 lateral fasciae of the first seven segments pale, fuscous, short, 

 truncate, and confluent; eighth segment fuscous, ninth 

 white, sutures well defined ; legs pale chestnut yellow ; 

 posterior femora long ; tibiae abruptly clavate. Length |. 



Communicated by Mr. A Clapham, of Potternewton, 

 near Leeds. 



