100 MONOGRAPHIA 



The only specimens of this species which have come 

 under my notice were kindly forwarded by Prideaux John 

 Selby, Esq. of Twizell House, Northumberland, who found 

 them upon the Golden-Eye Garrot (Clangula chrysoph- 

 thalmos) . 



45. DOCOPHORUS PLATALE^E. Denny. (Louse of the 

 Spoonbill.) 



Plate IV. Fig. 9. 



Head and thorax deep chestnut, the former broad, with 

 two liver-coloured bands; abdomen nearly orbicular, with 

 elongate liver-coloured fasciae. 



Head chestnut, obtusely triangular, the anterior part 

 truncate, with an oblong depression, and two semicircular 

 transverse lines uniting in the centre, and two deep liver- 

 coloured spots before the antennae, from which pass nearly 

 perpendicular bands, increasing in width to the occiput, 

 base very broad, convex, and rotundate ; eyes small, black ; 

 trabeculae very small ; antennae pale, tawny-yellow, long 

 and slender, the first joint large and thick, the second long 

 sub-clavate, the remainder gradually decreasing ; prothorax 

 very short and transverse, slightly channelled ; metathorax 

 large, nearly the width of the head, very convex towards 

 the posterior margin, lateral margin rotundate, base trans- 

 Tersely truncate, ciliated with numerous yellow-white hairs; 

 abdomen nearly orbicular, pale yellow- white , the first eight 

 segments with elongate, wavy, acutely triangular, lateral 

 fasciae, of a fine deep liver-colour, shading internally into 

 chestnut ; legs pale chestnut, and rather thick. Length 1J. 

 I found an abundance of this insect upon a specimen of 

 the White Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia), which was killed 

 at Yarmouth in Norfolk in 1829. The abdominal fascia 



