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each side ; abdomen broad and obtusely ovate in the male, 

 oblong elliptical in the female, each segment, excepting 

 the first and last, with a deep pitchy chestnut margin, the 

 dorsal portion of the first eight of the same colour, leaving 

 the sutures and a broad band down each bright fulvous, last 

 segment chestnut in the male, obscure in the female ; anus 

 with numerous long hairs ; legs thick and strong, pale 

 ochraceous Length, male 1, female 1|. 



Communicated by Mr, Thompson from Belfast, and 

 Mr Heysham from Carlisle. 



42. DOCOPHORUS LATIFRONS. (Louse of the Cuckow.) 



Plate I. Fig. 4. 



Head and thorax bright ferruginous, the anterior part 

 of the former very broad, and deeply emarginate ; abdomen 

 oblong, ovate, white, with bright ferruginous fasciae, shad- 

 ing internally into a deep chestnut or liver brown. 



Docophorus latifrons. Nitzsch. Germ. Mag. iii. p. 290. Steph. Cat. pt. ii. 

 p. 331. Pediculus Cuculi. Fabr. Syst. Ent. 807. 17. Syst. Jnst. ii. 

 479. 20. Pediculus fasciatus. Scop. Ent. Carniol. 383. n. 1040. 



Ferruginous, oblong, depressed and shining, with white 

 hairs; head large, sub -triangular, the anterior part very 

 broad and retuse, with a semi-oval depression, and two 

 dark chestnut lines uniting in the centre, and two broad 

 diagonal bands from the antennse to the occiput; eyes 

 very small, fuscous ; trabeculae thick and strong ; antennae 

 rather short, pale ochraceous, the first joint short and 

 thick, the second much longer, cylindrical, the remainder 

 short and equal; prothorax about half the width of the 

 head, sub-conical, sides deeply margined ; metathorax large 

 transverse, sides rotundate, base the broadest and truncate, 

 ciliated with stiff hairs, centre channelled ; abdomen oblong 



