92 MONOGRAPHIA 



37* DOCOPHORUS UPUPJE. Denny. (Louse of the Hoopoe.) 



Plate VIII. Fig. 1. 



Elongate, chestnut and shining ; head with a dark angular 

 lateral patch before the eyes ; abdomen with the sutures 

 and stigmatic fovea pale ochraceous. 



Head subtriangular ; clypeus produced, acute, and pale, 

 lateral margin with a dark angular patch before the eyes, 

 terminating in an impressed line at the occiput, base large, 

 and rotundate ; trabeculse small and acute ; antennae slen- 

 der, pale fulvous ; prothorax small, quadrate ; metathorax 

 subconical, as wide as the head, lateral margin straight, 

 angles acute, base produced into a very acute angle, slightly 

 channelled ; abdomen elongate ovate, the sutures and stig- 

 matic areola pale ochraceous, lateral margin pitchy black, 

 segments nearly equal and ciliated ; legs pale chestnut ; 

 anterior femora thick, with a fuscous patch at the apex; 

 tibiae long, slender. Length 1. 



I am indebted to W. M. Tweedy, Esq. of Truro, for the 

 first examples of this rare species, since which T. C. Hey- 

 sham, Esq. forwarded me another specimen taken from a 

 Hoopoe (Upupa Epops) shot near Carlisle. 



* * * Metathorax terminating posteriorly in a semicircle, or abruptly 



truncate. 



38. DOCOPHORUS CEBLEBRACHYS. (Louseof the Snowy Owl. ) 



Plate I. Fig. 3. 



Shining and smooth ; head large, cordate, bright chest- 

 nut; abdomen white, with numerous white hairs, lateral 

 margin with liver-coloured transverse bands; legs bright 

 ochreous yellow. 



Docophorus ceblebraehys ? Nitzsch's MSS. vol. iv. p. 197. 



Head and thorax bright chestnut yellow, the former very 



