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BRUCE F. CUMMINGS — NONDESCRIPT ANOPLURA AND M ALLOPHAGA. 



the tip, with a small hair at each corner ; genital armature short, only just 

 extending' into the penultimate segment. Chitin everywhere shows a pronounced 

 scaly appearance under a high power. The " scales " are imbricated and occur 

 on the head, thorax and abdomen and may be detected on the clear chitin 

 between the sclerites. 



Length (in mm.), tf, 1'40, Q, 1-85 ; head, tfQ, 0*15; thorax, tf Q , 0*2; 

 abdomen, c?, 1*05, Q, 1*5 ; greatest width, c? Q, 0*4. 



Host : Epimys surifer, Mill. 



Malay Peninsula : Biserat, Jalor, 6. vii. 1901 (Annandale §• Robinson). 



The specimens were, unfortunately, too damaged for complete description. 



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Fig. 1. — Linognathus limnotragi, Cummings, 9? an ^ the underside of the last segments (9)« 



Genus Linognathus, Enderlein. 



Linognathus limnotragi, sp. nov. 



The new form is distinguished by the broad truncate proboscis, suggestive of 

 L. gazella, Mjoberg ; but L. limnotragi is broader, and differs in the position of 

 the brown taches on the preantennal area of the head, the arrangement of the 

 bristles and hairs being also quite different. 



Head thick, stunted, broad and short in front, truncate at the tip of the 

 proboscis, which bears four distinct hairs and is very rugose, with small tubercles. 

 Two deep brown taches on each side of the preantennal area of the head, which 

 extend a little around the anterior corners of the head, but do not meet ; on the 



