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16. lAiteurus einer eus Nitzsch. 



Giebel, Insecta Kpizoa, 1874, p. 221 ; Piaget, Les Pediculines, 1880, 

 p. 353, pl. XXVIII, fig. 5. 



A male, three females and four youngs of this species were collected 

 by Mr. N. Kuroda from a specimen of Coturnix japonica, shot at Numazu, 

 Prov. Suruga, Feb. 26, 1916. Three more females were taken from a skin 

 of the same bird killed in Prov. Shinano, Jan. 25, 191 5. 



All the specimens agree well with the descriptions given by Giebel and 

 Piaget, except in the fact that they are somewhat larger. Measurements of 

 the specimens (those in parenthesis are Piaget's) : 





O 

 -r 





Length of body 



mm. 



2.13 M) 



ram. 



t.8 5 (1.5) 



Width of body 



0.61 (0.52) 



0.40 (0.31) 



Length of head 



0.56 (0.44 I 



0.51 (0.42) 



Width of head 



0.42 (0.32) 



0.34 (0 25) 



Length of thorax 



O.28 (0.33) 



0.28 (0.28) 



Width of thorax 



0.36 (0.31) 



o-33 (°-25) 



Antenna 



O.18 (0.14) 



0.25 (0.21) 



According to Piaget, the species is very variable in size ; a female 

 measured by him reached 2.2 mm. in length. 



17. lAiteurua eontstoeki Kellogg and Chapman. 



Kellogg and Chapman, Journ. New York Ent. Soc. Vol. X, 1902, p. 23, 

 pi. Ill, fig. 2. 



A female specimen of the species was found on a Siberian ruddy crake 

 (Por zana fu sea) from Tokyo, and a female on eastern water rail alius 

 aqua ti eus indiens) killed in Prov. Tosa. 



18. !.*/>< it rus turf ur is sp. nov. 

 A single female specimen was taken from an eastern turtle-dove 



