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Neiv Mallophaga 
Seven SS, 4$?, and 6@@, from the pied goose {Anseranas semi- 
palmata), Koolpinyah, Northern Territory of Australia, July, 1913, 
G. F. Hill. 
It is somewhat significant that this parasite, coming from a host 
with the generic name of Anseranas, should hnk up in so marked a 
fashion the genus Akidoproctus found on ducks with the genus Orni- 
thobius found on geese and swans. Still more important is the fact 
that it connects with these genera the previously somewhat isolated 
Bothriometopus from Palamedea, and thus points to a confirmation of 
the anserine affinities of the Palamedeidae. 
Family Goniodidae. 
Genus Austrogoniodes, nov. 
The Mallophaga of the above family hitherto described from penguins 
are three in number, viz., Goniocotes bifasciatus Piaget (1885, p. 47) from 
Spheniscus demersus, G. watersioni Cummings (1914, p. 173) from 
Eudyptula minor, and Goniodes brevipes Giebel (1878, p. 254) from 
Aptenodytes longirostris. I propose to describe presently a new species 
from Eudyptes sclateri, and I have in hand half a dozen other species, 
which will be described in the zoological results of the Australasian 
Antarctic Expedition. I find that these species form a compact group, 
with certain easily recognisable features in common, for which I now 
propose generic rank. 
The characters upon which I base the genus are not of striking 
morphological significance, but they are sufficient to render the species 
included recognisable at a glance. The chief is the head-shape, the 
temples being greatly swollen, and produced far back alongside the 
prothorax. The anterior temporal ‘angle’ is never really angular. In 
most species it is only a broadly rounded swelling, though in one or 
two it becomes obtusely rounded, and more or less angular. The 
posterior temporal angle is produced backwards into an acute point, 
reaching to at least half the length of the prothorax, and continued by 
a stiff spine back on to the metathorax. The result is a head-shape 
which, however much it may vary in detail among the members of the 
genus, differs from that of any other Goniodidae. The second character 
is the shortness of the legs, particularly of the tibiae, which are, in some 
species, as broad as long, and which are always armed mth heavy 
conical processes, not well enough chitinised to be called spines. Apart 
from these, it may be noted that the d abdomen always ends in a 
