ON A SECOND COLLECTION OF MALLOPHAGA ETC. 



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Description of the female: — -Body short, broad, 1.72 mm. long and 

 O.63 mm. wide. Ground colour of body pale brownish with pitchy 

 and smoky brown markings on head and thorax ; with dark brown, 

 continuous, transverse bands on abdomen. 



Head large, comparatively long O.33 mm. long, 0.56 mm. wide ; 

 front broad, rounded; front xl margin on each side with five fine hairs 

 and four longer hairs, of which the hindmost one is remarkably 

 elongated ; a long and a short hair at the angle in front of each 

 ocular emargination ; a fine and a long hair on each side of the 

 dorsum of front. Eye large, distinct, provided with a very short, 

 weak hair ; ocular fleck black, distinct ; ocular fringe distinct, com- 

 poied of numerous long and curved hairs ; palpus projecting from 

 the lateral border of head with ; nearly the whole length of its 

 terminal segment ; temples expanding, somewhat angulated in front 

 and behind, each bearing five long pustulated hairs and a few short 

 hairs and prickles ; occipital margin straight, with two pustulated hairs 

 in the median parts. Ground colour of head brownish ; ocular blotch- 

 es irregular, pitchy brown, outwardly fading into a smoky brown ; 

 a short and curved dark brown band on each side in front of man- 

 dibles ; short smoky brown occipital bands connected posteriorly with 

 similarly coloured broad bands running along the border of temples, 

 occipital margin and posterior margin of templei narrowly, but con- 

 spicuously, bordered with pitchy brown. On the ventral aspect of 

 head, in the space in front of mandibles, a hair and two bristles on 

 each side ; six fine hairs in the space between antennal grooves ; on 

 each side of the quadrate posterior ventral sclerite a row of three 

 hairs, of which the hindmost one is the longest and strongest. 



Prothorax 0.16 mm. long and 0.30 mm. wide ; narrow, somewhat 

 hexagonal in outline ; lateral angles with two spines and a short hair ; 

 anterior lateral margin straight, bare ; posterior lateral margin convex ; 

 posterior margin convex, with six hairs ; colour of prothorax brownish 

 with an indistinct W-shaped, smoky brown marking ; distinct transverse 



