NEW MALLOPHAGA. 29 



ami two or three shorter ones along margin in front of 

 antennary fossie; antenna' large, long, (almost 1 mm.), 

 without projection on any segment; segment 1 largest 

 and other segments successively decreasing in width 

 and length, uncolored except for an indelinite brown- 

 ish annulation on segment 2; eyes projecting, conspic- 

 uous; temporal margins slightly exj)anded, rounded 

 behind, with, one short, weak hair and a few prickles; 

 ground color brownish white; even, blackish brown 

 antennal bauds running around in front, the small 

 portion of clypeus lying in front of the band being 

 dark subtranslucent brown; temporal regions bounded 

 within by diverging occipital bands, all blackish brown, 

 these blotches acutely pointed in front and almost 

 reaching to, but distinctly separate from, the bases of 

 the antennal bands; on the forehead a dark brown lat- 

 eral blotch on each side and in front of the mandibles. 

 Prothorax short and quadrangular as exposed; two 

 short, weak hairs in posterior angles, one lying in on 

 posterior margin; narrow median region of segment 

 whitish, widest behind; lateral portions of segment 

 blackish brown, paling inwardly. Metathorax large, 

 long, with lateral margins concave, posterior nuirgin 

 weakly and flatly concave; a single short, weak hair in 

 the apex of the posterior angles, and five longer, 

 stronger, light brown hairs in a very snndl elongate- 

 elliptical, uncolored space near the apex of the angles; 

 segments all blackish brown, except a wiiitish, bluntly 

 pointed, arrow-head-shaped, median region; projecting 

 laterally from the posterior tip of this whitish space is 

 on each side a small, linear, whitish space. Legs long, 

 strong, coxse nearly uncolored; femora dark brown, 

 with uncolored extremities and tibia? mostly colored. 

 Sternal markings, prosternum with narrow, pericoxal 



