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head, elliptical ; mesothorax obscure ; metathorax trans- 

 verse; abdomen turbinate, pale chestnut, darkest on the 

 sides, sutural margins pale, and densely ciliated, last three 

 segments bright tawny, lateral margin somewhat serrulate ; 

 legs long, fulvous, and hairy, with a dark band on the su- 

 perior margin. Length | to f . 



Communicated by my brother from the Turbet Pigeon : 

 in some specimens the central portion of the abdomen is 

 pale yellow- white. 



4. COLPOCEPHALUM ZEBRA. (Louse of the White Stork.) 



Plate XIX. Fig. 2. 



Elongate, dark brown ; head large, sub-panduriform, with 

 an interrupted black fascia on each side ; abdomen deeply 

 emarginate, sutural margins pale. 



Colpocephalum zebra. Nitzsch. Germ. Mag. iii. p. 298. Steph. Cat. pt. ii. 

 p. 333. Burmeister Handbuch ii. pt.ii. p. 438. 



Head large, tawny-yellow, orbital sinus deep, a broad 

 interrupted black fascia down each side, united at the base, 

 leaving a bilobate space in the centre ; clypeus transverse 

 and ciliated, base concave ; eyes prominent ; antennae pale 

 yellow ; prothorax elliptical, with a cruciform depression in 

 the centre, and a line on each side ; mesothorax very small ; 

 metathorax small, transverse, lateral margins and base 

 rotundate, the latter fulvous ; abdomen oblong, deeply emar- 

 ginate, each segment with a broad transverse band of deep 

 brown above, sutural margin fulvous; legs pale, superior 

 margin dusky. Length 1 . 



Communicated by Dr. Burmeister of Halle from the 

 White Stork (Ciconia alba). 



