FROM THE SOCIETY S GARDENS. 



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Philopterus pictus Giebel (5, p. 68). 



1 c5' & 1 $ from Aquila chrysaetos (Linn.), 



Philopterus asturinus Mjoberg (6, p. 112). 



Males and females rather plentifully from the Goshawk {Astur 

 palumharius (Linn.)). 



This species comes close to Denny's type-specimens of P. nisi 

 from Accipiter nisus (Linn.), which Piaget — I do not know with . 

 how much reason — synonymises with P. go7iorhynchus. 



Text-figure 6. 



Philopterus asturinus. Alimentary canal. X 70. 

 O. oesophagus. C. ctecum. Cr. crop. F. ventrioulus. B. rectal glands. 



Male Reproductive Sijste in and Copulatory Apparatus (text-fig. 5). 



Testes and vas deferens as usual. The vesicida seininalis is a 



little elongate, of the shape given in the figure. Basal plate : 

 Short and broad, lateral maugins well chitmised along whole 

 len<^th, slightly convergent in front. Parameres : Short, stout, 

 curved', very much as in the Owl Philopteri (except P. rostratus). 

 Mesosome : Ventrally, running out from the posterior margin of 



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