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Mallop hag an family Triiuenoponidae 
Philandesia townsendi Kellogg and Nakayama. 
Figs. 2 b, 3 b, 4 a, 5. 
1914. Kellogg and Nakayama, Ent. News, xxv, 199-200; PI. 8. 
1916. Harrison, Parasitology, ix, 31. 
Previous Records. From Lagidium peruanum, Peru. 
Specimens Examined. One female and two males taken from a skin of 
Viscacia inca Junin, Peru (Field Columbian Museum). The types of the species 
are in the Stanford Collection but appear to have been mislaid and were not 
Fig. 1. Trimenopon jenningsi (Kellogg and Paine). 
examined in connection with the preparation of this paper. The hosts are 
members of the rodent family Lagostomidae. 
Notes. There is little to add to the original description but I am presenting 
figures for comparison with the other members of the family. The original 
figure shows the mesonotum as entirely suppressed but this is in error, for the 
mesonotum, although small, is nevertheless present. The genitalia of the male 
(Fig. 4 a) are extremely complicated, so much so that with the scanty amount 
