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s. rciiiDA : 



Ground colour of head pale brownish ; antennal bands broad, conspicuous, 

 dark brown, interrupted by a colourless, distinct and A -shaped broad 

 suture ; posterior ends of the bands somewhat bent inwards in front of each 

 antenna ; ocular blotch small, rounded, dark brown ; temporal band narrow, 

 pale brownish, broadened just below eye, gradually narrowing towards 

 the angle. 



Prothorax o. I mm. long, 0.19 mm. wide ; short, quadrangular ; lateral 

 margins nearly straight and very slightly diverging posteriorly ; posterior 

 margin somewhat convex ; posterior angles rounded, each bearing a short 

 spine ; lateral bands brown. Metathorax 0.2 mm. long, 0.27 mm. wide ; 

 quadrilateral, widest at the posterior angles ; sides nearly straight, diverging 

 posteriorly ; anterior lateral angles slightly extended ; posterior lateral 

 angles rounded, each with a short spine ; a long pustulated hair, two very 

 long hairs and a weak hair on a pustule near each lateral angle ; posterior 

 margin convex ; marginal bands narrow, brown. Legs paler than thorax, 

 with pale indistinct marginal markings. 



Abdomen 0.9 mm. long, 0.39 mm. wide ; elongate oval ; segments wide- 

 ning to the fourth and then gradually narrowing to the ninth ; segments II 

 and 111 longer than any other ; posterior angles a little extended, each bear- 

 ing one short hair on segments II-IV ; two long hairs on segments V-VII ; 

 segment VIII with a slight emargination on each side, bearing three long 

 and a few short hairs ; the last segment small, rounded, slightly emarginated 

 at tip, bearing four very short hairs, (iround colour of abdomen whitish ; 

 segments I-VII with reddish brown lateral bands which extend anteriorly 

 into preceding segment, each side of segments I-VII brown ; all segments 

 with a pair of pale yellowish brown blotches forming two submedian rows. 



19. Lipeurua bacultts Nitzsch. 



Denny, Monogr. Anopl. Brit., 1S42, p. 172, pl. XIV, fig. 3; Giebel, 

 Insecta Epizoa, 1874, p. 216; Piaget, Les Pediculines, 1880, p. 303, pl. 

 XXV, fig. 2; Taschenberg, Die Mallophagen, 1882, p. 123 ; Osborn, Bui. 



