Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 305 
A New Mallophagan. 
By E. A. MoGrecor, U. S. Bureau of Entomology, Batesburg, 
S. Carolina. 
Several male specimens of a somewhat curious Colpo- 
cephalum were taken from the screech owl Otus asio maccalh 
at Dallas, Texas, by the writer in January of 1911. Professor 
Kellogg validated my convictions that the species was new to 
science in a communication in part as follows: “* * * but 
it has such produced and amputated temples and such marked 
differences in the thorax, that .it cannot be put with C. sub- 
pachygaster * * *”’ The latter species is a well distributed 
owl Colpocephalum with broad head and broad abdomen and 
is perhaps closest to the present species. 
Colpocephalum painei sp. nov. 
Male—tLength 1.30 mm., width across abdomen .57 mm. Pale yel- 
low in color with no pronounced markings. 
Head. Length .39 mm., width .53 mm., being thus almost half again 
as wide as long. Front blunt, very slightly emarginate with no trace 
of hairs or spines. One long, strong hair on the very prominent angle 
in front of the deep ocular emargination and two shorter, weaker 
hairs on the sides before it. Neither the antenne nor the palpi nor- 
mally projecting. The eye is large, prominent, with a large, black 
fleck. A narrow, chestnut-yellow, bow-shaped clypeal band. Ocular 
blotches deep-chestnut, inflated-comma-shaped. The ocular fringe ex- 
tends to the angle of the temples and is continued onto the latter by a 
line of four or five short bristles. Temples nearly parallel to one 
another with two long, very strong hairs near the hinder angle pre- 
ceded by a shorter, weaker one. Occiput strongly concave, for the 
most part pale, with a short, transverse, bow-shaped bar connecting 
laterally with the enlarged ends of two bands which arch obliquely 
backward to the occipital margin. Occipital bands wanting. 
Thorax. Length .25 mm., width .52 mm. Prothorax semi-lenticular, 
the anterior margin rounded, while the posterior margin is much more 
angulated. The latter bears a long hair at each lateral angle, another 
pair about half way to the middle, and a pair of somewhat shorter 
hairs near the rounded median angle. The transverse bar is narrow 
and indistinct, and the curving chestnut-yellow, longitudinal lines be- 
yond the ends are clearly defined and are continuous with the oblique 
bands of the occiput. A small, crescent-shaped marking occurs on 
each side at the junction of the pro- and metathoracic margins and 
encroaches slightly on the latter segment. Metathorax short, in shape 
that of an anteriorly emarginated trapezium, with flatly-convex pos- 
