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known to us, and the largest Mallophagan species so far de- 

 scribed. The next largest is Lcemobothorium loomisi Kellogg, 

 length, 9.7 mm. , from the Canada Goose, and the next Lipeurus 

 ferox Nitzsch, length 9 mm. from the albatrosses. 



Laemobothorium gypsis n. sp.— Fig. 1. Three females from a Griffon 

 Vulture, Gyps kolbi, taken at Nelspruit, Eastern Transvaal. Description 

 of female. Body length, 10.5 mm.; a strongly-marked species, readily 

 distinguishable by its size and by the unusual projection and narrowness 

 of the clypeal portion of the head. Head with conspicuous protuberant 

 pre-ocular regions, and sharply defined elongate narrow clypeal region ; 

 the temples strongly marked and angulated ; hairs large and numerous 

 and conspicuous on pre-ocular and temporal 

 lobes ; on anterior margin of clypeus two 

 long hairs in each angle and numerous short 

 ones in marginal region ; before each eye a 

 single strong hair, and behind eye a distinct 

 row of short, stiffish even spine-like hairs 

 along lateral margin ; strong black brown 

 cuticular markings along all lateral margins 

 except antero-lateral angles of clypeus ; the 

 black brown marking projecting in and curv- 

 ing so as nearly to set off the pre-ocular 

 lobes ; occipital margin strongly, but nar- 

 rowly, black-brown. Prothorox shield- 

 shaped, with fringe of short hairs along ante- 

 rior margin and long strong hairs in antero- 

 lateral and medio-lateral angles ; also num- 

 erous hairs along postero-lateral margins ; 

 posterior margin broadly and shallowly 

 emarginate in middle producing two distinct, 

 backward-projecting, obtusely-angled points; 

 strong black lateral marginal markings, wid- 

 est in middle and tapering out anteriorly and 

 posteriorly. Metathorax like an abdominal 

 segment but twice as long as the true first abdominal segment ; strong 

 black lateral marginal border containing a few pustulated hairs. Legs 

 with many strong hairs and with strong markings. Abdomen with 

 strong black lateral borders and each segment with a pair of dorsal, 

 paler, large blotches ; these blotches nearly fused on the median line in 

 segment one, but separated on all other segments by a medial uncolored 

 space of curious sub-elliptical or vase-shaped outlines, these spaces larger 

 on the wider segments, and successively wider in proportion to their 

 postero-anterior length as one examines the segments from before back- 

 wards ; three or four pustulated hairs in the posterior margin of each 

 abdominal blotch, and many hairs, long and short, along the lateral 

 margins of the whole abdomen. 



