NEW MALLOPHAGA. 47 



scription and strango illustration I cannot determine 

 whether my specimens resemble his or not. 



Description of the female. Body, length 1.5G mm., 

 width .7r> mill.: golden brown, with chestnut-brown 

 transverse abdominal bands. 



Head, length .28 mm., wi<lth .58 mm.; being thus 

 twice as wide as long; very few short hairs along front; 

 from a partly clear sjiot on the dorsal surface on each 

 side of the forehead three hairs arise of which one is 

 very long; the palpi project by the length of the termi- 

 nal segment; no distinct ocular fringe; the temples 

 narrow and bearing three very long hairs and two or 

 three shorter ones; occipital margin weakly concave, 

 with six longish hairs, two being median; ground color 

 of head pale subtranslucent brown, with nearly uncol- 

 ored temples; black ocular flecks, irregular brownish 

 ocular blotches, and a very narrow blackish occipital 

 border. On the ventral surface are two backward-pro- 

 jecting, segmented, pointed, chitinous processes arising 

 apparently at about the origin of the labial palpi. 



Prothorax large, the obtuse lateral angles projecting 

 even with the insertion of the last of the three long 

 occipital hairs; the lateral margins and posterior mar- 

 gin (separated by a very obtuse but obvious angulation) 

 with a few longish, slightly j)ustulated hairs (two on 

 each lateral margin and six on the posterior margin); a 

 spine in each lateral angle; the regions of the lateral 

 angles smoky, with narrinv l)lackish border on lateral 

 margin; the straight, transverse chitin bar uncolored, 

 the curving, longitudinal chitin bars blackish; middle 

 region of segment concolorous with middle region of 

 head. Metathorax short, but little wider than pro- 

 thorax; posterior margin straight, with a series of long- 

 ish hairs; region of posterior angles and an indistinct 



