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emarginate, with a quadrangular depression and two chestnut 

 curved lines uniting in a fuscous spot near the vertex, late- 

 ral margin sinuated with two broad diagonal liver-coloured 

 bands to the occiput ; eyes prominent ; trabeculae strong, 

 conical ; antennae pale fulvous yellow; prothorax sub-conical; 

 mesothorax transverse, posterior margin rotundate ; abdo- 

 men broad, nearly orbicular, white, flat, segments nearly 

 equal ; lateral fasciae acutely conical, slightly emarginate, 

 bright chestnut, terminating internally in deep pitchy brown ; 

 legs bright fulvous yellow and stout ; the apex of the femora 

 and extremities of the tibiae chestnut ; anterior femora sub- 

 angular. Length 1. 



Communicated from the Common Buzzard (Buteo vul- 

 garis), by Rev. L. Jenyns, and Mr. Heysham ; from the 

 Rough-legged Buzzard by Mr. Henry Doubleday, upon 

 which bird I have taken it myself. 



57. DOCOPHORUS NISI. Denny. (Louse of the Sparrow- 

 Hawk.) 



Plate III. Fig. 11. 



Bright fulvous-yellow ; clypeus narrow and deeply emar- 

 ginate ; abdominal fasciae bright fulvous, long and acute. 



Head long, acuminate, bright fulvous-yellow ; clypeus 

 produced, deeply emarginate, with an oblong or pyriform 

 depression ending in a deep chestnut patch, diagonal bands 

 deep chestnut ; trabeculae conical and strong ; antennae pale 

 yellow, the second joint the largest ; eyes flat, obscure ; pro- 

 thorax sub-conical, slightly channelled ; metathorax trans- 

 verse, less in width than the head, posterior margin slightly 

 produced and convex, with deep chestnut humeral markings ; 

 abdomen ovate, yellow white, the lateral fasciae long, very 

 acute, bright fulvous-yellow, posterior segments with the 





