L. Hill Ho 
terminal segment and genitalia of the male enables this species to be readily 
listinguished from that described by him. 
My thanks are due to Mr G. A. H. Bedford of the Veterinary Research 
Laboratories, Onderstepoort, Pretoria, for the kindly help and assistance 
vvhich he has always been most ready to give me, and I have great pleasure 
n naming this species after him. 
Trichodectes lindfieldi n.sp. Plate II, figs. 4-6. 
Numerous males and females taken from a Cape Hyrax (Procavia capensis) 
shot at Mtabamhlope, Estcourt District, Natal, by Mr P. Barnes. 
Female. Total length 1-47 mm., length of head 0*43 mm., length of pro- 
bhorax 0-12 mm., length of metathorax 0-15 mm., length of abdomen 0-77 mm. 
Width of head across temples 0-42 mm., width of prothorax 0-30 mm., width 
oi metathorax 0*40 mm., width of abdomen, at third segment 0-71 mm. 
Head. Light yellowish-brown. Almost as broad as long. Forehead dome¬ 
shaped, emarginated in front, with the sides slightly convex, and produced 
with a prominent trabecula-like process in front of each antenna. Antennal 
bands narrow and dark, terminating approximately midway between the 
interior margin of the head and the trabecula-like processes. Frontal sinus 
deep, semicircular in section, with a marginal band of dark brown chitin 
divided into two parts by a median longitudinal narrow space; one hair 
situated on each side just within the emargination. Antennal sinuses small 
and shallow with rounded inner margin. On each side of the forehead, there 
are three hairs, one in front, one in the middle, and one above the antennal 
sinus. Ocular projections prominent, extending well beyond the temples which 
ire rounded. Occipital margin slightly convex, very slightly emarginate at 
the points where it is met by the occipital bands. Temples rounded with a 
narrow dark marginal band and three short marginal hairs. Occipital bands 
3onspicuous, connected at their bases by a broad band, and meeting the 
antennal bands just above the trabecula-like processes. Antennae long and 
slender, reaching beyond the posterior margin of the head; the third segment 
the longest with four minute hairs; first and second segments of equal 
length each with two short hairs. On the dorsal surface of the forehead there 
is a semicircular row of six small pustulated hairs; and below this semicircular 
row one small hair on either side just within the antero-lateral border; also 
two small and two medium hairs situated in a line with the trabecula-like 
processes. On the hind-head a semicircular row of four short hairs in the 
middle, and two on each temple. 
Prothorax. Much broader than long, with a broad marginal band of deep 
chestnut-brown; lateral margins almost parallel, the posterior margin markedly 
convex, with medium postero-lateral emarginations, and one short pustulated 
hair on each side of the meson near the anterior margin. 
Mesothorax. With three pustulated hairs on the dorsal surface. 
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