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Head very large, especially in the female ; clypeus broad, 

 convex, and dark chestnut, with an oblique broad fascia 

 before each antennae, temporal angles and occiput dark 

 chestnut, vertex concave ; eyes pale brown ; antennae ful- 

 vous-yellow, filiform in the female ; prothorax very short, 

 transverse ; metathorax not so wide as the head, rotundate, 

 posterior margin produced and subangular, lateral margin 

 with deep chestnut, uncinate fasciae ; abdomen large, ob- 

 ovate, pale, yellow, and pubescent, the first segment and 

 lateral fasciae bright tawny-yellow, the latter broad and con- 

 fluent, sutural margin deep chestnut brown, last segment 

 with two black angular spots ; legs thick, pale-yellow, su- 

 perior margin chestnut. Length 1J-. 



I suspect this species is of rare occurrence, as the only 

 specimen which I have examined was communicated by 

 Mr. Thompson from Belfast, and that being a female, I am 

 precluded from describing the characteristics of the male. 



9. GONIODES NUMIDIANUS. Denny. (Louse of the 



Pintado.) 

 Plate XIII. Fig. 7. 



Pale straw-yellow, shining and smooth, margined with 

 black ; head sub-orbicular ; abdomen acuminate, with 

 pitchy-brown interrupted transverse bands. 



Head sub-orbicular, deeply sinuated on each side before 

 the eyes ; clypeus with a chestnut band in front, terminating 

 in pitchy-black on each lateral angle ; eyes prominent and 

 black ; antennae pale yellow, the first joint large and sub- 

 oval ; prothorax subquadrate, with a black fascia on each 

 side, base rotundate ; metathorax wider than the head, lateral 

 margin oblique, base subangular and black ; abdomen large 

 acuminate, the first five segments with a black lateral fascia, 

 centre with transverse interrupted pitchy bands, last two seg- 

 ments chestnut ; legs thick ; femora with a pitchy angular 



