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MR. STANLEY HIRST ON SOME 



anterior (dorsal) spur large, ventrally this coxa has a large 

 posterior spur (larger than in L. arcuatus). Third coxa with two 

 posterior spurs, the inner fairly well developed, the outer weaker. 

 Fourth coxa apparently without any spur. Femur of first leg 

 dorsally with two rather noticeable but not very long spiniforni 

 settc near its distal end and there are also some quite short ones 

 ou this limb, Veutrally the tarsus of the second leg has two 

 stout but very short spurs or spinules. Tarsi of third and fourth 

 legs with a spine near the distal end. There are also some 

 weaker spines a.nd set^e on the legs. 



Text-fie-ure 32. 



Liponyssus macedoiiiciis, s]). n., $. Dorsal view. 



S . Ventral jdccte without any transverse line, it is expanded 

 just behind the last coxfe and afterwards narrows again to form 

 the neck-like portion connecting it with the anal part ; the anal 

 part of the plate has a ver}^ minute denticle or cone on each of 

 its margins just before the striated tip ; there are nineteen hairs 

 on the ventral plate including the posterior unpaired one. C'o.ae 

 furnished with spurs as in the female, but there is also a slender 

 (outer) spur on the last coxa. Second leg stout but rather short, 

 the fourth leg longer than the others and considerably swollen, 

 one of the spines on the patella and another on the tibia are 



