44 BRUCE F. CUMMINGS — NONDESCRIPT ANOPLURA AND MALLOPHAGA. 



Length (in mm.), d, 8*45, Q, 10'1 ; head, c?Q,2; thorax, cJQ,l-7; ab- 

 domen, c?, 4*75, Q, 6*4 



Host : the Hoatzin (Opisthocomus cristatus). 



British Guiana (presented by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild). 



Laemobothrium is the parasite par excellence of the birds of prey, though it also 

 occurs in Gallinula, Fulica and Psophia, and has been reported from the ostrich. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



Dochophorus on Bombus. 



B. Wanach (Ent. Rund. 1910) records the transport of a Philopterus by 

 Ornithomyia amcularia, L., and Mitzmain (Philippine Agric. Rev., v, 12th 

 December 1912) reports the Anopluran, Haematopinus tuberculatus (Nitzsch), 

 as attaching itself in its earlier stages to the legs of Lyperosia. It is perhaps of 

 interest to record here in this connexion that the British Museum collection 

 contains a fragmentary specimen of an unidentified species of Dochophorus taken 

 from Bombus hyperboreus, from Hayes Sound, 79 N. Lat. 



Heterodoxus longitarsus (Piaget) ( = H. macropus, Le Souef and Bullen). 



In the "Victorian Naturalist" for February 1902, p. 159, Messrs. S. A. 

 Le Souef and H. Bullen give a summary description and a rough figure of an 

 Amblyceran which they name Heterodoxus macropus, found on the kangaroo. 

 Examples of this parasite which Mr. Le Souef presented to the British Museum 

 agree almost in toto with Piaget's species Menopon longitarsus ("Les Pediculines," 

 p. 504), from Helmaturus giganteus. Prof. L. G. Neumann (Archives de Para- 

 sitologic, xv, 1912, p. 353) records M. longitarsus from a kangaroo in the Jardin 

 des Plantes. I have been unable to compare II. macropus with the type of 

 M. longitarsus but Piaget's full description and figure and Neumann's figure of 

 the head are sufficient to put the matter beyond doubt. The Australian authors 

 comment on its likeness to the genus Menopon, but in consequence of the fact that 

 its host is a marsupial mammal and not a bird (as in almost all other Meno- 

 ponidae) they decided to found the new genus Heterodoxus for it; which 

 should perhaps be allowed to stand, especially as I find the hypopharynx differs 

 markedly in structure from that of other Menoponidae so far examined. 

 Heterodoxus longitarsus (Piaget 1880) from a mammal is mentioned by Piaget 

 with Colpocephalum truncatum (on Pkascolomys fossor), and Menopon extraneuni 

 (on Cavia cobaya), also from mammals. The British Museum collection contains 

 specimens of H. longitarsus from the Wallaby (N. Queensland), from Cor one 

 australis (Victoria), from the dog (Borneo), and the jackal (Somaliland), so that 

 this species is able to exist on a variety of hosts, in many parts of the world. 



Hybophthirus notophallus, Neumann. 



This peculiar parasite from the equally peculiar Cape Ant-eater, Orycteropus 

 qfer, was described in 1909 both by Enderlein and by Neumann. The hitter's 

 description under the name Haematopinus notophallus was the first to be published, 

 in the Jahrbucher des Nassauischen Vereins fur Naturkunde in Wiesbaden ; 

 while Enderlein's description under the new genus Hybophthirus appeared, 



