NEW MALLOI'HAUA. 01 



marked, is a ineinber of the group interrajilu-fasciuti, in 

 general sliape like vul(jatus K. (New Mallophaga 11, i). 

 41)G, 1)1. Ixvii, fig. 5) and with the characteristic angu- 

 lated, colored internal border of the antennal fos.sa. In 

 the distinctness and contrast of the markings it recalls 

 illustria K. (Xuw Mallophaga 11, \>. 494, pi. Ixvii, 

 fig. 4). 



Description of the male. Body, length 1.C5 mm., 

 width .4 mm.; translucent whitish with sharp, black, 

 narrow marginal bands on head and abdomen: legs 

 with annulations and semiannulations; thorax with 

 intercoxal lines showing through distinctly, and abdo- 

 men with median linear brown transverse blotches, two 

 to a segment, on ventral aspect. 



Head, length .34 mm., width .31 mm.; front narrow, 

 sliirhtlv convex; two or three short hairs on the lateral 

 margin of the front; a short prickle in front of the 

 trabeculie which are distinctly angular and uncolored; 

 antennie long; segment 2 longer than other segments, 

 segment 5 distinctly dark brown; eye prominent, with 

 two prickles, one on the eye itself and a second just at 

 its posterior angle; tenijdes rounding, with one very 

 long hair, one short fiuf liair, and three short prickles; 

 occipital margin straight and bare; antennal bands 

 narrow, clearlv defined, not fadini:; inwardlv, their 

 anterior extremities separated by the uncolored clypcal 

 front, interrupted just before the trabecuUe by a dis- 

 tinct uncolored space, posterior extremities acutely 

 meeting the dark narrow bands that angularly margin 

 the antennary fosste and the eye; the temples irregu- 

 larly dark on the margins; the occipital signature dis- 

 tinctlv showiniT throuuh as a narrow brown blotch on 

 the occipital margin and in ivowi as a triangular blotch. 



Prothorax with rounding lateral margins and pos- 

 terior angles; three short spines on the dorsal surface 



