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straight, and anterior to their terminations. It carries a dark band along 
the antero-lateral border, and otherwise is miiformly coloured, except 
that it is slightly lighter along the postero-lateral borders, and that the 
coloration stops short of the hind margin. The legs are short, thick, 
and heavily chitinised, the tibia bearing distally four stout conical 
processes, two of them pedunculated. 
The abdomen is of eight apparent segments, widest at the second and 
third, thence tapering slightly to the seventh, which is followed in the 
$ by the broadly roimded, slightly emarginated, eighth; while in the 
S that segment is heavily chitinous, and semicircular. The details of 
the transverse bands and pleural markings are shown in Fig. 15. The 
pleural bands, particularly in the $ and towards the posterior end 
(Text-fig. 2. 4), bear a ridiculous resemblance to a row of bird’s heads, 
poised upon long necks, which has suggested the specific name. 
The genital plate of the $ is a flap hinged laterally, concave in the 
middle, and fringed with short hairs, which increase in size on either 
side, culminating in a row of a dozen stout curved hairs. The S genitalia, 
shown in Text-fig. 2. 2, are complex, and difiier considerably from those 
of A. waterstoni and other members of the genus. 
Chaetotaxy of $: the forehead shows eight extremely small evenly 
spaced spines; similar spines are scattered over the surface of the head; 
two similar spines between antenna and greatest width, at which point 
a similar spine and a longer stouter one occur, followed by another 
short spine round the ‘angle.’ Prothorax with a pair of small spines 
anteriorly; and a short hair on the hind margin towards each postero¬ 
lateral angle. Metathorax with a very short spine in front of, one at, 
and three, alternating with hairs, behind the angle; two hairs at the 
angle, two on the postero-lateral margin, and six along the hind border, 
with a pair posterior to them. Legs strongly beset with short spines, 
in addition to the spinous processes mentioned above. Each anterior 
abdominal segment with a row of about six hairs in the median area, 
flanked by a pair of minute spines on a line with the inner ends of the 
pleural bands; first segment with a couple of minute spines at the 
angle, remainder with 2-3 hairs in addition; eighth segment with three 
hairs on either side, and a pair of spines on the hind border. On the 
ventral side, the sternal region is free from hairs, except for a couple on 
the hind border of the metasternum; but each abdominal segment 
bears a row of fine hairs. 
Chaetotaxy of d: differs in having a fair-sized hair in place of the 
spine just behind the greatest width of the temple; in having a row of 
