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BRUCE F. CUMMINGS — ANOPLURA FROM AFRICAN HOSTS. 



front of these another widely-spaced transverse row of 4 hairs, the outer ones 

 being on the margin. The transverse furrow or " suture " behind the antennae 

 is concave on the anterior side and accompanied by a row of six small hairs. 

 Two or three minute hairs at the margin of the temples, and a long bristle at 

 each posterior corner, with a comparatively short one beside it. Two short 

 hairs further in near the median line in the occipital area. On the under 

 surface, a raised median area shaped like a wine-glass ; close to the basal joint 

 of the antenna on each side a moderately long bristle ; in front of the antennae 

 four shorter bristles, and around the mouth of the rostrum four minute hairs. 

 Antennae short, thick, 1st joint very broad, squat ; 2nd longest, narrower ; 3rd 



Fig. 2. — Polyplax otomydis, Cummings, 9 , dorsal aspect, and ventral aspect of anal segments. 



a little longer than the 4th ; 5th short, with a sense-organ. Thorax short, with 

 convex lateral margins, and receiving the head in a V-shaped groove. A loner 

 hair on the mesonotum on each side a little distance in from the lateral margin. 

 Sternal plate pointed behind, rectangular in front. Legs : the 1st pair small, 

 claw slender ; 2nd pair small, claw broader ; 3rd pair large, with stout claw like 

 a parrot's beak ; 1st pair of coxae closely approximated, 3rd pair contiguous. 

 Abdomen elongate, broadest before the middle, rounded behind. On the dorsal 

 surface, segment I short and small with only two hairs, segment II with a row of 

 six hairs, segment III with one sclerite and one row of hairs ; succeeding 

 segments with two sclerites and two rows, but III with one sclerite and one row 



